WWII Batangas: Forced Cotton Planting and Civilian Hunger
Among the common themes related to World War II in Batangas found in the so-called “historical data” required by the administration of Presi...
May 2020
A 1920 Biography of Apolinario Mabini
From a 1920 publication entitled “Prose Selections” of the Department of Public Instruction and Bureau of Education, we extract this easy to...
How Mount Batulao Got Its Name – a Folkloric Story
At the border between the provinces of Batangas and Cavite rises an inactive volcano called Mount Batulao. It has an elevation of 2,274 fee...
The Beginnings of “Kapeng Barako’s” Association with Batangas
Fact 1: Mention “kapeng barako” (Spanish: café verraco 1 ) and most people immediately think of the province of Batangas. This is despite ...
Guerrilla Groups that Operated in Batangas in WWII
Guerrilla groups that were formed and operated in the years of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines from early 1942 to mid-1945 played...
“At the Capture of Rosario:” an Account of the US Army’s 1900 Incursion into Batangas
This article contains a transcription of an article that appeared in a 12 January 1900 issue of “The American 1 ,” an English-language newsp...
