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 Pre...
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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, ...
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 f...
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 despit...
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 play...
“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 new...
Taal Volcano Eruptions: a Historical Record
Below is a record of the eruptions of Taal Volcano dating back to the dawn of the Spanish colonial era in the Philippines. The data is tak...
Muslo and the Maliputo: the Great Fishes of Taal Lake and the Pansipit River
Back in the 1960s when this writer was still a young boy, his mother would take him along at daybreak on the forty or so minute ride to Le...
Historic Photos of the Taal Volcano Crater Lakes, 1907
The photographs contained in this page have been extracted from an scientific paper written by Raymond Foss Bacon and published in 1907 in ...