MEET THE SPEAKERS! [READ]
Filipinas in history as Superheroes? Oh yes. See them reimagined in an exciting new exhibit in Quezon City! #FightLikeGirls!
Alas ng Bayan 2.0 is a riveting new contribution to an exhibition series celebrating the unbroken line of Filipina heroism in our people’s past, from the 19th century to the present.
First launched in 2019, the Alas ng Bayan exhibit is a history-through-art initiative of the Constantino Foundation in cooperation with the Tandang Sora Women’s Museum and 350 Pilipinas. The exhibit seeks to reintroduce the Philippine past and femtinism as young Filipinos respond to the worsening state of national forgetting, maldevelopment, and the climate crisis. The exhibit hopes to generate interest in sectors not normally active in national and social issues by offering notions of citizenship, nationhood, and activism in the face of multiple emergencies hammering the country today.
Alas ng Bayan 2.0 is a reinterpretation by the artist Billy [READ]
A sense of honor is one of the simplest lessons our nation’s mightiest heroes can impart. But it’s a teaching we can absorb only by remembering better, by wielding our usable past.
This month marks the 114th year since Jose Abad Santos, the nation’s fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, passed the Bar Exams in October 1911. The occasion is an auspicious reminder, for we cannot avoid the subject of law given fresh revelations of plunder perpetrated, yet again, by the country’s so-called lawmakers, in connivance with criminals in the bureaucracy and private contractors.
Part of a storied family in Pampanga, at 10 years-old Jose Abad Santos served as a courier to the fledgling forces of the Philippine Republic during the Philippine-American War. His father, Don Vicente, was tortured and killed by Spanish authorities, who dragged his lifeless body from town to [READ]
As part of the preparations for the arrival of Severe Tropical Storm Opong—with classes and government work in several areas of Luzon already suspended for Friday and Saturday, September 26–27—the Book Launch of The Philippines: A Past Revisited (50th Anniversary Special Edition) and the History Forum scheduled for tomorrow, September 26, 2025, at UP Manila will be postponed.
🗓️ New Date: October 3, 2025 (Friday)
⏰ Time: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
📍 Venue: Little Theater, Rizal Hall, College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), UP Manila
👉 We encourage everyone to register early.
👉 Those who have already registered are requested to register again to confirm attendance.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. Please stay safe, and we hope to see you on October 3rd!
The Philippines: A Past Revisited by Renato Constantino and Letizia Roxas Constantino is featured in the September 2025 print edition of The Rolling Stone Philippines (Arts & Culture Issue), coinciding with the book’s 50th anniversary.
First published in 1975, the volume has been described as “a landmark text in Philippine historiography”, one that “moves beyond colonial narratives” and “foregrounds the struggles of ordinary Filipinos.” Through its framing of history as “a usable past,” it continues to serve as a critical resource for understanding the present through the lens of the past.
This feature precedes the book’s presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025, where the Philippines is Guest of Honor. The international stage offers an important platform for revisiting the Constantinos’ contribution to historical scholarship and for situating Philippine history within broader global conversations on memory, nationhood, and cultural identity.
Fifty years after its publication, A Past Revisited endures as a key reference [READ]
Join us for the launch of the 50th anniversary edition of The Philippines: A Past Revisited—a landmark work by Renato and Letizia Roxas Constantino, whose partnership shaped generations of critical historical thought.
🗓️ September 26, 2025
⏰ 3PM–5PM
📍 Little Theater, UP Manila (Rizal Hall, College of Arts and Sciences, Padre Faura St., Ermita, Manila)
UP students, faculty, and alumni may present their UP ID at the venue. All other guests are requested to register via this link:
🔗https://forms.gle/8zbDqtbp338ULqyf8
Please see the attached materials for full event details and registration instructions.
by Eneri Eidref Trinidad and Karyl Alexandra Ipac
Honoring the legacy of the late Filipino historian Renato Constantino and his infl uence in the study of Philippine history, the Constantino Foundation kicked off a history forum and launch of the 50th anniversary special hardbound edition of The Philippines: A Past Revisited held in Rosh Hotel Manila on August 26.
The relaunch of A Past Revisited drew a crowd of invited guests, some of whom are undergraduate students of the University of the Philippines-Manila (UPM), in the Colleges of Pharmacy and Public Health.
Originally published in 1975 during the Martial Law regime, the book tackles Philippine history in a nationalist stance, focusing on the Filipino struggle during the Spanish and American colonial rule.
Bernard Karganilla, a history professor at UPM and a close colleague of Constantino, formally opened the event with a warm welcome and delivered [READ]
September 13, 2025 | Cover Story PH | Liana Garcellano
The 50th-anniversary special edition of “A Past Revisited”
The current harvest of books is particularly abundant, and includes a special hardbound edition of Renato Constantino’s “A Past Revisited” as well as Atom Araullo’s “A View from the Ground,” Benjamin Pimentel’s “UG: The Life and Struggle of Edgar Jopson,” and Roderick Toledo’s “The Ruminant Ant & Other Essays.”
“A Past Revisited” was first published in 1975—a feat at the time for two reasons. First, it came three years into the martial law era and, second, in those early days when the effects of climate change had yet to be fully felt worldwide, Renato Constantino was already advocating for a rapid transition to renewable energy. He wrote: “The acceleration of efforts towards developing [READ]
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