What can you find on this site?

• links to eyewitness accounts of key events in Philippine history (Pigafetta's chronicle, Rizal's diaries, Jose Abad Santos' letters)
• links to important historical documents (Philippine declaration of independence, Rizal's works, versions of the Philippine constitution)
• links to classic interpetations of historical questions (Constantino's Veneration without Understanding)
• links to provincial histories and tips in using primary sources and historical documents in the teaching of Philippine history (soon)

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.

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