Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell (1984)
History is the witness of the times, the light of the truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, and the messenger of antiquity.
Cicero Roman Statesman
learning by investigation or inquiry
Etymology "Historia"
the record of the human past from the time written records began to appear
History
"study of man, his growth and development in all aspects, political, economic, social, cultural, and others"
S.P Pathak (2004)
"interpretative and imaginative study of surviving records of the past, either written or unwritten, in order to determine the meaning and scope of human existence"
Funtecha
"the recorded struggle of people for ever increasing freedom and for newer and higher realization of the human person"
Constantino
"devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty"
Patriotism
"the policy or doctrine of asserting the interests of one's own nation viewed as separate from the interests of other nations or the common interests of all nations" a kind of excessive, aggressive patriotism
Nationalism
classification of historical sources
Primary and Secondary Sources
are those sources produced simultaneously as the event, period, or subject being studied
Primary sources
are sources produced by an author who relied on primary sourced to write the material
Secondary sources
products of historical research
Secondary sources
two ways used for evaluating historical sources
External and Internal Criticism
authenticity or originality by checking the validity of the source
External Criticism
reliability or accuracy of authenticated source
Internal Criticism
one of the aims of Spanish colonization
to spread Christianity
date of the first mass
March 31,1521
AN ACT TO DECLARE THE SITE IN MAGALLANES, LIMASAWA ISLAND IN THE PROVINCE OF LEYTE, WHERE THE FIRST MASS IN THE PHILIPPINES WAS HELD AS A NATIONAL SHRINE, TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS AND LANDMARKS THEREAT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Republic Act No. 2733
one of the original members of the katipunan
Guillermo Masangkay
was a prominent 20th century Filipino historian
Teodoro Agoncillo
discovery of the KKK
August 19, 1896
initial move of the Filipinos to begin the revolution for independence
First Cry of the Philippine Revolution
focal point of the issue which calls for a debatable discussion is based on the textual analysis of various historical critics
Controversy
a document enacted by Marcos, stating that the country shall be placed under martial law so as to quell all forms of lawless violence and rebellion
Proclamation No. 1081
consists of revisiting the sourced of a historical record or period with different perspective or new data that could alter how we see it
Historical revisionism
also called denialism, is the falsification or distortion of the historical record.
Historical negationism