Photos Taken in Tanauan, Early American Colonial Period
These photos below are part of the recently-released Manila Railroad Company collection of the United States National Archives Digital Lib...
Tanauan
The Tanauan Guerrillas who Helped Downed US Pilots Escape the Japanese in WWII
Beginning on the 10 th up to the 20 th of October 1944, planes of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise started raiding Japanese airfields...
A 1920 Biography of Apolinario Mabini Part I
PART I PART I | PART II From a 1920 publication entitled “Prose Selections” of the Department of Public Instruction and Bureau of Edu...
A 1920 Biography of Apolinario Mabini Part II
Notable Batangueños. PART II PART I | PART II [p. 9] The lad had few friends in school, went to no parties, had few amusements, ...
Badong and the Legend of the House Lizard as used to be Told in Tanauan, Batangas
[In this article: Batangas Province, Batangas beliefs and folklore, Tanauan Batangas, Batangas legends, house lizard, butiki, butiking bah...
A Tale of Love, Lust and Sex in 1903 Tanauan, Lipa and San Juan, Batangas
[Topics in this article: Supreme Court cases, Tanauan Batangas, Lipa Batangas, San Juan Batangas, San Juan de Bocboc, Philippine Penal Cod...
The Conley Police Bribery Case and Dr. Jose P. Laurel’s Presidency during the Japanese Occupation
[In this article: Jose P. Laurel philosophy, Ray Conley, Govrnor General Leonard Wood, Tanauan Batangas, American colonial era] Tanauan...
The Case of the Makapili in Tanauan and the Heroic Dr. Brigido Carandang
From the archives of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, we get this story 1 of both the heroism and treachery of fellow Batangueños on...
19th Century Tanauan, Batangas as Described by a Spanish Historian
We continue with the series of articles on late 19 th century Batangas as described the former government official and historian Manuel S...
The 1749 Eruption of Taal Volcano which Forced 2 Pueblos to Become One as Tanauan
The present-day city of Tanauan is among the Province of Batangas’ oldest population centers. It can trace its roots back to two pueblos ...
The Augustinians and their Role in the Founding of Taal, Batangas, Tanauan, Bauan and Lipa
The Augustinians were the first Catholic religious order to come to the Philippine Islands. In fact, the expedition led by the conquistad...
When Batangas was the “Orange Capital” of the Philippines
At the mention of the name Batangas, among the first things that immediately comes to mind is coffee, even if the boom years of the plant ...
13 Superstitious Beliefs of the People of Santo Tomas, Batangas in 1925
From an Anthropology paper entitled “Superstitious Beliefs from Santo Tomas, Batangas,” written in 1925 by one Aurora A. Hernandez, we get...
Was Dr. Jose P. Laurel, Batangueño President of the 2nd Philippine Republic, a Traitor?
I have a fairly vague recollection of this self-same question being asked during a high school history class decades ago. If Dr. Jose P. ...
Tanauan City: Historical and Folkloric Trivia about some of its Barrios
This article is part of a series that focuses on historic and folkloric trivia about the barrios of the towns and cities of Batangas. Inf...
Classic Photos of Bauan, Taal and Tanauan taken in the Early 1900s
In a way, photographic essays can be more descriptive than those made with words; and this one gives very graphic descriptions of life in ...
Dr. Jose P. Laurel and the “Dirtiest Election” in Philippine Electoral History
Many readers would have heard of Dr. Jose Paciano Laurel, born in 1891 in what was then the town of Tanauan in Batangas, from secondary sc...
How Churches in Balayan, Bauan, Ibaan, Lemery, Lipa, San Jose, San Juan, Tanauan and Taysan Looked Like in 1911
The images were all taken in the year 1911 by the American Luther Parker, who first came to the Philippines in 1901 and stayed in the Phil...
The Apolinario Mabini Syphilis Rumors and Late 19th Century Philippine Power Play
Those among readers who daydreamed through lessons on Apolinario Mabini in high school Philippine History would likely have paid attention...
The Rape of Tanauan by the Japanese in World War II and Its Difficulties after the War
On 7 December 1951, then Philippine President Elpidio Quirino signed Executive Order Number 486 requiring the compilation of historical da...