An account of the American takeover of the Philippines, beginning with the US defeating Spain, and ending with it brutally suppressing Filipino resistance, written by Stephen Kinzer. Submitted by ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his family left the Philippine island of Corregidor on this day in history, March 11, 1942. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave the island after ...

As I was reading the final papers submitted by the students in the course I teach on world religion, I noticed a common theme when it comes to their appreciation for religion in general, and for ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Just over one hundred years ...

The complex history behind Asia’s most Christian country. Few events in the Philippines have been more anticipated than Pope Francis’s 2015 visit to the home of the world’s third-largest Catholic ...

“Threaded Traditions," an exhibit featuring contemporary Filpino textiles, is now on display at the Charlotte Museum of History. The Charlotte Museum of History is marking Asian American, Native ...

Jesus ‘wants us to bring to him all mankind, especially all sinners, and immerse them in the ocean of his mercy so we can really be renewed as a nation, as a country.’ The faithful take part in a ...

The Vatican's spokesman said that papal history was made Sunday during Pope Francis' visit to the Philippines where an estimated 6-7 million people attended his closing Mass. "The official number that ...