Chapter 1

Lesson 1.1. Meaning and Relevance of History

 Renato Constantino – A Past Revisited (Chapter 1: Towards a People’s History) pp. 1-9
https://siagrey.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/the-philippines-a-past-revisited-renato-constantino.pdf
 John Schumacher -The Making of a Nation, Essays on Nineteenth-Century
Filipino Nationalism (Chapter 1: A Historian’s Task in the Philippines) pp. 7-15
https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=k2R39kbi1FYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=
onepage&q&f=false

Lesson 1.2
 Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier - From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods pp.
17-27

 Antoon Postma – The Laguna Copper-Plate Inscription: Text and Commentary, Philippine Studies vol. 40, no. 2
(1992), pp. 183-203

Chapter 2. Content and Contextual Analysis of Selected Primary Sources

Lesson 2.1
 Antonio Pigafetta, Primo Viaggio Intorno Al Mondo, in ”, in E.H. Blair and J.A.
Robertson. The Philippine Islands, vol XXXIII, pp. 175-187 (omit pages written in Italian. Odd numbered pages are
translated in English)

Lesson 2.2
 Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, Relation of the Filipinas Islands and of the character and conditions of their
inhabitants, July 7, 1569.
Source: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their
peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts,
showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with
European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 3], Blair, Emma Helen, ed. d.1911. pp. 54-61

Lesson 2.3
 Juan de Plasencia, Customs of the Tagalogs
Source: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their
peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts,
showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with
European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 7] Blair, Emma Helen, ed. d.1911. pp. 173-
196

Lesson 2.4
 Excerpt from Antonio Mozo, O.S.A. , Noticia Historico Natural (Madrid, 1763) in The Philippine Islands, 1493-
1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the
Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic,
commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the
beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 48] Blair, Emma Helen, ed. d.1911, pp. 80-90.

Lesson 2.5
 Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista. Declaration of Philippine Independence, ratified June 12, 1898, translation by
Sulpicio Guevara

Lesson 2.6
 Fernando Amorsolo in Alfred McCoy, Political Caricatures of the American Era (Editorial Cartoons). Pp. 236-
240