A recent, terrifying discovery in the Philippines is shaking the foundations of what we know about ancient human history. The ...

Judging Spain by modern standards of colonization, we might praise her if she had taken over simply the social structure she found, and builded upon it her government, modifying and destroying ...

Being a former colony, it was natural for the Philippines to have strong diplomatic and economic ties with Spain. The Philippines was under Spanish rule for 333 years. Through colonization, the ...

Much like the Americas, the Philippines was under Spanish colonization, which began in the 1500s and lasted for nearly three centuries.

There is no question that the greatest legacy that the more than 300 years of Spanish colonization of the Philippines was to introduce and spread the Catholic faith among the Filipino people. An ...

Throughout Spanish colonization of the Philippines, jobs such as fishing and farming — which require people to spend hours under the sun and resulted in darker skin — became perceived as lower ...

In a throwback to the Spanish colonization of the Philippines (1565-1898), three cities bear the name Magallanes. The largest is a second-class municipality in Sorsogon Province with 34 barangays; ...

Red-ayglasses blogs about the state of Philippine education during pre-colonial times and under Spanish colonial rule.

IN the first part of this column, I discussed the "regalian doctrine," which asserts that all lands during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines belonged to the "crown," or the King of Spain. I ...