What can you find on this site?

• links to eyewitness accounts of key events in Philippine history (e.g. Pigafetta's chronicle, Rizal's diaries)
• links to important historical documents (e.g. versions of the Philippine constitution)
• links to guides in using primary sources in history teaching

Why primary sources?

• Many students consider the study of history as boring and uninteresting.
• Use of primary sources enliven history and allows the student to experience vicariously (i.e. through reading) what others experienced as they lived through history.
• Simply put, use of primary sources puts the story back in history.