THE chief obstacle to social and political progress in the Philippine Islands is “caciquism,” the term by which “bossism” is known in those regions. Bossism, as it is now applied in the United States, ...

Saints of Resistance is the first non-religious study focused on the dynamic life of saints and their devotees in the Spanish Philippines from the sixteenth through the early part of the eighteenth ...

There’s a price to pay for colonizers who conquer lands and forcibly impose their culture and beliefs on the natives, and Ferdinand Magellan paid it with his life.

America's "splendid little war" with Spain may have been "little" in one respect — as a military conflict — but its historical consequences have been anything but small. With its victory and ...