All Episodes — The Colonial Department

S5 Ep 5S5E3: An Awkward Armada

<html>Kapampangan warriors! Japanese mercs! Spanish soldiers! Portuguese promises! Let’s set sail with the grand fleet of Governor-General Juan de Silva as they face down the Dutch.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a> Follow us on TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thecolonialdept" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a> Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Borschberg, Peter (2010). “Luso-Spanish Naval Intervention.” In The Singapore and Malaka Straits: Violence, Security and Diplomacy in the 17th Century. National University of Singapore Press, 137-156.Newson, Linda A. (2011). Conquest &amp; Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines. Ateneo de Manila University Press.Andaya, Leonard Y. (1993). The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early ModernPeriod. University of Hawaii Press.Kadir, Hatib Abdul (2014). “History of the Moluccan’s Cloves as a Global Commodity.” Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture, 1(2).Valpuesta Villa, Inigo (2022). “Una oportunidad perdida. La gran armada de Juan de Silva en Filipinas (1610-1616).” Obradoiro De Historia Moderna, 31. <a href="https://revistas.usc.gal/index.php/ohm/article/view/7771" target="_blank">https://revistas.usc.gal/index.php/ohm/article/view/7771</a>Laarhoven, Ruurdje, and Wittermans, Elizabeth Pino (1985). “From Blockade to Trade: Early Dutch Relations with Manila, 1600-1750.” Philippine Studies, 33(4), 485-504.Peterson, Andrew Christian (August 2014). Making the First Global Trade Route: The Southeast Asian Foundations of the Acapulco-Manila Galleon Trade, 1519-1650. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawaii at Manoa.]</html>

Nov 11, 202315 min

S5 Ep 3S5E2: Hattie the Headhunter

<html>From princess to flapper to schoolteacher to rebel, this is the extraordinary story of Tarhata Kiram.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Follow us on TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thecolonialdept" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>Charbonneau, Oliver (2021). Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World. Ateneo de Manila University Press.Leetaru, Kaleev (2004-2011). “Woman’s Building/Bevier Hall/English Building.” UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois. <a href="https://uihistories.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/cview?SITEID=1&amp;ID=80" target="_blank">https://uihistories.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/cview?SITEID=1&amp;ID=80</a>Vaugh, Miles W. (20 April 1927). “Former Illinois University Co-Ed Aspires to Become Moro Empress.” The Pittsburgh Press. Associated Press (7 February 1927). “Moro Chief Abandons Favorite Wife Who Saved Him From His Armed Foes.” Youngstown Vindicator. “That Wild Little Sulu Flapper We Couldn’t Tame.” (Author unknown, 27 February 1927) The Sunday Vindicator. “Princess Takes Blame For Revolt.” (Author unknown, 7 February 1927). The Telegraph-Herald.Angeles, Vivienne S.M. (1997). “Philippine Muslim Women: Tradition and Change.” In Islam, Gender, and Social Change (John L. Esposito, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, eds.). Oxford University Press.Society Editor (10 September 1920). Caption in “The Social Whirl.” The Afro-American.“Student Life at Illinois: 1910-1919.” Student Life and Culture Archives, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. <a href="https://www.library.illinois.edu/slc/research-education/timeline/1910-1919/" target="_blank">https://www.library.illinois.edu/slc/research-education/timeline/1910-1919/</a>Malcolm, G. A. (1957). American Colonial Careerist. Boston, MA: Christopher Publishing House.Chua, Xiao (23 May 2013). “Tarhata Kiram: Astig na Prinsesang Muslim.” It’s Xiaotime! <a href="https://xiaochua.net/2013/05/23/xiao-time-23-may-2013-tarhata-kiram-astig-na-prinsesang-muslim/" target="_blank">https://xiaochua.net/2013/05/23/xiao-time-23-may-2013-tarhata-kiram-astig-na-prinsesang-muslim/</a>Brainard, Cecilia (2 January 2015). “Philippines: Filipina Muslim Princess Tarhata Kiram.” Travels (and More) with Cecilia Brainard.<a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2015/01/princess-tarhata-kiram.html" target="_blank"> https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2015/01/princess-tarhata-kiram.html</a></html>

Oct 28, 202312 min

S5 Ep 1S5E1: The Governor-General’s Love Affair

<html>A tantalizing wind was blowing into the Philippines from Madrid. In its wake was Carlos Maria de la Torre, who seemed determined to shock the entrenched colonial establishment. Follow us on IG: @thecolonialdept Follow us on TikTok: @the.colonial.dept. Email us: [email protected] References: Simpson, Renate (1980). “Higher Education in the Philippines under the Spanish.” Journal of Asian History, 14(1), p. 1-46. Smith, Willard A. (July 1950). “The Background of the Spanish Revolution of 1868.” The American Historical Review, 55(4), p. 787-810. Escudier, Alicia Castellanos. “Carlos María de la Torre y Navacerrada.” Real Academia de la Historia. https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/54427/carlos-maria-de-la-torre-y-navacerrada Aseniero, George (2013). “From Cádiz to La Liga: The Spanish Context of Rizal’s Political Thought.” Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives in Asia, 49(1), 1-42. “Spanish Constitutions, Brief Historical Overview” (undated). Constitucionalism español, Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliografico. https://bvpb.mcu.es/constituciones/en/micrositios/inicio.do The Senate between 1834 and 1923” (2 January 2023). In Constitutional Periods, Senado de España website, https://www.senado.es/web/conocersenado/senadohistoria/periodosconstitucionales/index.html?lang=en Coo, Stephanie (2019). Clothing the Colony: Nineteenth-Century Philippine Sartorial Culture, 1820-1896. Ateneo de Manila University Press. Guerrero, Milagros C. and Schumacher, John N., S.J. (1998). Kasaysan: The Story of the Filipino People. Vol. 5: Reform and Revolution. Asia Publishing Company, Limited. De Viana, Augusto (2019). “Agoncillo and Zaide painted Governor de la Torre in a favorable light…” [Facebook comment left on Everyday History’s July 12, 2019 photo post). Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/EverydayHistoryPH/posts/july12-on-this-day-in-1869-at-a-feast-hosted-by-liberal-spanish-governor-general/2301798766760540/ Ayala Museum (11 March 2021). “In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth…” [Facebook photo caption]. Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ayalamuseum/photos/a.156207354399852/4021961857824363/</html>

Oct 14, 202314 min

S4 Ep 26S4E13: Tour de Tojo

<html>Prime minister, general, and future convicted war criminal Hideki Tojo drops by the Philippines to see for himself if their colony is ready for independence. So how does his surprise visit go?Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a> References:Dery, Luis C. (1984) “Japan’s New Order in the Philippines, 1942-1945: A Blueprint for Asia Under Japan.” Philippine Social Sciences Review 48(1-4), 291-361.Eisner, Peter (2017). MacArthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II. Viking.Jose, Ricardo T. (1998). The Japanese Occupation. In Kasaysayan: The Story of the Filipino People. Asia Publishing Company Limited.Doyo, Ma. Ceres P. (1998). “Anything But Comfort.” In Jose, Ricardo T., The Japanese Occupation (110-111), Asia Publishing Company Limited.“Tojo tells Manila He’ll Crush Allies; Japanese Premier Boasts That 'Thorough Blow at Enemy's Armed Power' Is Near.” New York Times, 7 May 1943.“January 29, 1943.” Diary of Francis Burton Harrison. In The Philippine Diary Project. <a href="https://philippinediaryproject.com/1943/01/29/january-29-1943/" target="_blank">https://philippinediaryproject.com/1943/01/29/january-29-1943/</a></html>

Aug 19, 202314 min

S4 Ep 23S4E12: A Muscular Christianity

<html>Civilize? Christianize? As the Americans move into their new colony, they pack an unlikely weapon in their mission to take over the Philippines: sports! Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a> References:Gems, Gerald R. (2016). Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines: Bats, Balls, and Bayonets. Lexington Books.Putz, Paul (31 January 2022). “Muscular Christianity and Moral Formation Through Sports.” Faith &amp; Sports. Truett Seminary of Baylor University. <a href="https://blogs.baylor.edu/faithsports/2022/01/31/muscular-christianity-and-moral-formation-through-sports/" target="_blank">https://blogs.baylor.edu/faithsports/2022/01/31/muscular-christianity-and-moral-formation-through-sports/</a>Report on the YWCA and the YMCA in the Philippine Islands, 1930 (1930). Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History (File — Box: 4, Reel: 354, microdex: 8), Smith College Special Collections. <a href="https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/170680" target="_blank">https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/170680</a>Brosas, Arturo (4 January 2023). “What is Texas Gamefowl Chicken?” Agraryo.com <a href="https://agraryo.com/poultry/what-is-texas-gamefowl-chicken/" target="_blank">https://agraryo.com/poultry/what-is-texas-gamefowl-chicken/</a>Kramer, Paul (2014). “Colonial Crossings: Prostitution, Disease, and the Boundaries of Empire During the Philippine-American War.” In Body and Nation: The Global Realm of US Body Politics in the Twentieth Century (Rosenberg, E. and Fitzpatrick S., eds), Duke University Press.Bartholomew, Rafe (2010). Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin’ in Flip-Flops and the Philippines’ Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball. New American Library.Anderson, Warwick (2006). Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. Ateneo de Manila Press. </html>

Jul 28, 202313 min

S4 Ep 21S4E11: When a Romanov Visited Pampanga

<html>Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich Romanov, uncle to the last tsar of Russia, makes an unexpected pitstop at a sprawling estate along the banks of the Pampanga River.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a> References:Kowner, Rotem (15 June 2022). “Time to Remember, Time to Forget: The Battle of Tsushima in Japanese Collective Memory since 1905.” The Asia-Pacific Journal 20(12, 3).Pyvovarov, Serhii (1 April 2022). “118 years ago, Russia wanted to distract its people from internal problems, inciting a “small victorious war” with Japan. It ended in defeat and revolution, and the phrase became a meme.” Babel. “Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich” [Caption to a Portrait]. Jewels of the Romanovs: Treasures of the Russian Imperial Court. Online exhibition. <a href="https://www.alexanderpalace.org/jewels/gda.html" target="_blank">https://www.alexanderpalace.org/jewels/gda.html</a>Carlson, Peter (8 January 2018). “Encounter: Grand Duke Alexis Meets Buffalo Bill, Custer, Sherman, and Chief Spotted Tail.” Historynet. <a href="https://www.historynet.com/encounter-grand-duke-alexis-meets-buffalo-bill-custer-sherman-chief-spotted-tail/" target="_blank">https://www.historynet.com/encounter-grand-duke-alexis-meets-buffalo-bill-custer-sherman-chief-spotted-tail/</a> Freeman, Dianne (26 July 2021). “The Imperial Russians Who Defied the Czar for Love.” Crime Reads. <a href="https://crimereads.com/the-imperial-russians-who-defied-the-czar-for-love/" target="_blank">https://crimereads.com/the-imperial-russians-who-defied-the-czar-for-love/</a>Gonzalez, August Marcelino Reyes III and Gonzalez, Macario Diosdado Arnedo (19 August 2006). “Familia Arnedo de Sulipan, Apalit, Pampanga.” Remembrance of Things Awry. <a href="https://remembranceofthingsawry.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/361/" target="_blank">https://remembranceofthingsawry.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/361/</a>Tinio, Martin I. Jr. (9 June 2018). “A Table Like No Other.” The Spectacular Mid-Year Auction 2018. Leon Gallery.Ocampo, Ambeth (3 October 2018). “Berezowsky, Rizal’s Russian Friend.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. <a href="https://opinion.inquirer.net/116506/berezowsky-rizals-russian-friend" target="_blank">https://opinion.inquirer.net/116506/berezowsky-rizals-russian-friend</a>Ocampo, Ambeth (30 June 2023). “History on the tongue.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. <a href="https://opinion.inquirer.net/164409/history-on-the-tongue" target="_blank">https://opinion.inquirer.net/164409/history-on-the-tongue</a>Gonzalez-Ventura, Barbara (2 July 2005). “Fiesta in Apalit and Sulipan.” Philippine Star. <a href="https://www.philstar.com/lifestyle/modern-living/2005/07/02/284524/fiesta-apalit-and-sulipan" target="_blank">https://www.philstar.com/lifestyle/modern-living/2005/07/02/284524/fiesta-apalit-and-sulipan</a> Audio of Anastasia © Twentieth Century Fox. </html>

Jul 15, 202314 min

S4 Ep 19S4E10: A Flash Flood of Fast Fashion

<html>It’s an intercontinental textile trade war, as Spain throws open its colony’s ports to the world, and imported cotton from Britain muscles its way into Philippine markets.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a> References:Coo, Stephanie (2019). Clothing the Colony: Nineteenth Century Philippine Sartorial Culture, 1820-1896. Ateneo de Manila University Press. Ladrido, R.C. (27 May 2022) “Piña: The queen of Philippine handwoven textiles.” Vera Files. <a href="https://verafiles.org/articles/pina-the-queen-of-philippine-handwoven-textiles" target="_blank">https://verafiles.org/articles/pina-the-queen-of-philippine-handwoven-textiles</a>Lush, Emily. “Piña (Pineapple) Cloth, Philippines.” The Textile Atlas. <a href="https://www.thetextileatlas.com/craft-stories/pina-cloth-philippines" target="_blank">https://www.thetextileatlas.com/craft-stories/pina-cloth-philippines</a>Henry F. Funtecha (December 1981). “Iloilo’s Weaving Industry During the 19th Century.” Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 9(4), 301-308. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/29791740" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/29791740</a>Griffin, Emma (2014, 15 May). “Manchester in the 19th century.” British Library. <a href="https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/manchester-in-the-19th-century#:~:text=Manchester's%20growth%20rested%20largely%20on,the%20new%20factories%20and%20mills" target="_blank">https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/manchester-in-the-19th-century</a>“Manchester, Cotton, and Slavery.” (19 January 2023). The Science and Industry Museum. <a href="https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/manchester-cotton-and-slavery" target="_blank">https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/manchester-cotton-and-slavery</a>Legarda, Benito (1999). After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change, and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century Philippines. Ateneo de Manila University Press.Clips from Maria Clara at Ibarra and the Howie Severino Podcast are from GMA. </html>

Jul 1, 202315 min

S4 Ep 17S4E9: The Lethal Cost of Building the Galleons

<html>Native wood. Native workers. These are the foundations that made the prosperous Galleon Trade between Manila and Acapulco possible. But at what price?Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a> References:Peterson, Andrew Christian (August 2014). Making the First Global Trade Route: The Southeast Asian Foundations of the Acapulco-Manila Galleon Trade, 1519-1650. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawaii at Manoa.]Buhain, Jose M. (1994). “The Recovery of the San Diego.” Philippine Studies 42(4), p. 539-549. </html>

Jun 17, 202314 min

S4 Ep 15S4E8: British East India Co., Manila Branch

<html>Beginning in the 1670s, the biggest, most rapacious company on earth set its sights on the great trading port of the Pacific. Follow us on IG: @thecolonialdept Email us: [email protected] References: Dalrymple, Alexander (4 March 2015). “The East India Company: The original corporate raiders.” The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders Fish, Shirley (2003). When Britain Ruled the Philippines, 1762-1764: The Story of the 18th Century British Invasion of the Philippines During the Seven Years War. 1stBooks Library. Gallop, Annabel (5 June 2014). “Alexander Dalrymple’s Treaties with Sulu in Malay and Tausug.” British Library, Asian and African Studies. McIlhagga, Samuel (23 September 2019). “William Dalrymple on why Britain shouldn't be speaking nostalgically about empires amid Brexit.” The National. Quiason, Serafin (1966). English “Country Trade” with the Philippines: 1644-1765. University of the Philippines Press. Flannery, Kristie Patricia (14 December 2016). “Battlefield Diplomacy and Empire-building in the Indo-Pacific World during the Seven Years’ War.” Itinerario 40(3). Thomas, Megan C. (26 March 2019). “Securing Trade: The Military Labor of the British Occupation of Manila, 1762–1764.” International Review of Social History 64. Apple and Amazon financial news audio from CNBC International and Forbes.</html>

May 13, 202315 min

S4 Ep 13S4E7: Upon This Rock

<html>Prisoners from the Philippines get sent to the slammer—serving their sentences inside the military prison of Alcatraz! But what crimes earned them time on The Rock? Follow us on IG: @thecolonialdept Email us: [email protected] References: Thompson, Erwin S. (2000). The Rock: A History of Alcatraz Island, 1847-1972. U.S. National Park Service. Reed, John S. (1995) "External Discipline during Counterinsurgency: A Philippine War Case Study, 1900—1901." The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 4(1), 29-48. Smiley, Will. (2012). “Lawfare in Luzon: The American Application of the Rules of War in the Philippines, 1898-1903." [Term Paper, Yale Law School] Wills, Matthew (4 February 2020). “The Jim Crow Army in the Philippine-American War.” JStor Daily. daily.jstor.org/the-jim-crow-army-in-the-philippine-american-war Hallock, Jennifer (17 January 2021). “Sergeant Major John W. Calloway: A Voice to Challenge Empire.” jenniferhallock.com jenniferhallock.com/2021/01/17/john-calloway-philippines Audio of The Rock ©Buena Vista Pictures</html>

Apr 29, 202316 min

S4 Ep 11S4E6: The Big Book of Family Names

<html>The governor-general of the Philippines just conquered an island in Mindanao. Now, he’s about to do the same to each and every name in the archipelago.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>Check out the Catalogo alfabetico de apellidos at <a href="https://issuu.com/filipinasheritagelibrary/docs/catalogo_alfabetico_de_apellidos" target="_blank">issuu.com/filipinasheritagelibrary/docs/catalogo_alfabetico_de_apellidos</a>References:Cojuangco, Tingting (1993). Kris of Valor: The Samal Balangingi’s Defiance and Diaspora. Manisan Research and Pub. Inc.“Tarsila.” (2015). In V. Almario (Ed.), Sagisag Kultura (Vol 1). Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts. <a href="https://philippineculturaleducation.com.ph/tarsila/" target="_blank">philippineculturaleducation.com.ph/tarsila/</a>Dizon, Mark (2015). “Spirit Beliefs, Murder, and Religious Change Among the Eighteenth Century Aeta and Ilongot in Eastern Central Luzon.” Philippine Studies 63(1), 3-38.Lambrecht, Francis (1962). “The Religion of the Ifugao.” Philippine Sociological Review 10(1/2), 33-40.Scheans, Daniel (1966). “Anak Ti Digos: Ilokano Name Changing and Ritual Kinship.” Philippine Sociological Review 14(2), 82-85.Colin, Francisco (1663). Labor Evangelica. In Blair, Emma Helen, and Robertson, James Alexander (eds.), The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (Vol. 40), Arthur H. Clark Company, 57.Lijauco, Chit (16 February 2022). “Tracing the Origins of our Filipino Surnames.” Philippine Tatler. <a href="https://www.tatlerasia.com/lifestyle/others/tracing-the-origins-of-our-filipino-surnames" target="_blank">https://www.tatlerasia.com/lifestyle/others/tracing-the-origins-of-our-filipino-surnames</a>Ocampo, Ambeth (28 February 2020). “How Filipinos got their surnames.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. <a href="https://opinion.inquirer.net/127676/how-filipinos-got-their-surnames" target="_blank">https://opinion.inquirer.net/127676/how-filipinos-got-their-surnames</a>Ocampo, Ambeth (15 February 2013). “A sense of order.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. <a href="https://opinion.inquirer.net/46885/a-sense-of-order" target="_blank">https://opinion.inquirer.net/46885/a-sense-of-order</a> Mangubat, Benjamin (undated). …The Infinite Possibilities of a Broken Egg… Self-published. </html>

Apr 16, 202314 min

S4 Ep 9S4E5: Shadow of the Fatherland

<html>With war looming against the Axis powers, the Nazi party tries to exert its influence on the small community of Germans and Jews who lived in the Philippines. How did we fight back against the antisemitism?Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Weston, Nathaniel Parker (2021). Specters of Germany: Colonial Rivalry and Scholarship in the Philippine Reform Movement &amp; Revolution. Ateneo de Manila Press.Ephraim, Frank (2008). Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror. University of Illinois Press.Gopal, Lou (2014 January 28). “Manila Germans and the German Club.” Manila Nostalgia. <a href="http://www.lougopal.com/manila/?p=1869" target="_blank">http://www.lougopal.com/manila/?p=1869</a>Kotlowski, Dean J. (November 2009). “Breaching the Paper Walls: Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 1938-1939.” Diplomatic History 33(5), 865-896.Krebs, Gerhard (2015 January 1). “Racism Under Negotiation: The Japanese Race in the Nazi-German Perspective.” In Race and Racism in Modern East Asia, Brill.Kowner, Rotem (2017). “When economics, strategy, and racial ideology meet: inter-Axis connections in the wartime Indian Ocean.” Journal of Global History 12, 228-250.Aluit, Alfonso J. (1994). By Sword and Fire: The Destruction of Manila in World War II, 3 February - 3 March 1945. Bookmark, Inc.Scott, James M. (2018). Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila. W. W. Norton &amp; Company.Audio from German newsreels from Pathe and British Movietone. Audio of Kristallnacht survivors from The Atlantic. Audio of the Nanjing Massacre survivor from the Shoah Foundation.</html>

Mar 31, 202317 min

S4 Ep 8S4E4: The Bicycle in Peace and War

<html>From Rizal in Dapitan to Japanese troops on a blitzkrieg, this is a short history of biking in the Philippines.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a> References:Severino, Howie (22 June 2020). “Rizal’s Wish for a Second-Hand Bicycle.” GMA News Online. <a href="https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/specials/content/160/howie-severino-rizal-s-wish-for-a-second-hand-bicycle/" target="_blank">https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/specials/content/160/howie-severino-rizal-s-wish-for-a-second-hand-bicycle/</a>Herlihy, David (2010). The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Gems, Gerald R. (2016). Sports and the American Occupation of the Philippines. Lexington Books.Earle Stevens, Joseph (1899). Yesterdays in the Philippines. Charles Scribner &amp; Sons.Giron, Brian Paul (2020 October 4). “Finding bikes in our history.” Cycling Matters. <a href="https://www.cyclingmatters.ph/culture/finding-bikes-in-our-history/" target="_blank">https://www.cyclingmatters.ph/culture/finding-bikes-in-our-history/</a>Tewell, John. Pretty Filipina with her pride and joy, an American girl’s bicycle [Photo]. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/52134258412/sizes/h/?fbclid=IwAR2iU54F7mfNFYEpj3Q8mNc840NVblElvS3hHudysR9q8qo9CwsgsqDglks" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/52134258412/sizes/h/?fbclid=IwAR2iU54F7mfNFYEpj3Q8mNc840NVblElvS3hHudysR9q8qo9CwsgsqDglks</a>Fernandez, Yvette and Goy, Abi (2012). Big John: The Life Story of John Gokongwei Jr. Summit Books.Ephraim, Frank (2008). Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror. University of Illinois Press.Barriga, Maria Cynthia B. (2015). “The Asia-Pacific War in the Davao Settler Zone, December 1941.” Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies 30(1): 56–90.Danquah, Francis K. (2005). “Reports on Philippine Industrial Crops in World War II from Japan's English Language Press.” Agricultural History 79(1), 74-96 LCDR Headrick, Alan C (1994). Bicycle Blitzkrieg: The Malayan Campaign and the Fall of Singapore. (Paper submitted to the Operations Department.) Naval War College. <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/PTO/RisingSun/BicycleBlitz/" target="_blank">http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/PTO/RisingSun/BicycleBlitz/</a>Eisner, Peter (2017). MacArthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II. Viking. Interview with John Gokongwei Jr. from CNBC International.</html>

Mar 18, 202315 min

S4 Ep 5S4E3: Magellan at the Edge of the World

<html>Before Magellan crossed the Pacific, headed to the Philippines, and met his end at a Cebu beach, he was tasked with the impossible: sail to the end of their known world. What would he find there?Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>Reference:Fernández-Armesto, Felipe (2022). Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan. Bloomsbury Publishing.Columbus Day audio from Mel-O-Toons Animation.</html>

Mar 3, 202318 min

S4 Ep 3S4E2: What Happened at Hanapēpē

<html>As Filipino immigrants call for better pay and better treatment in the sugar cane plantations, the histories of Hawaii and the Philippines are about to intersect in a bloody way.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Jung, Moon-Kie (2004). “Symbolic and Physical Violence: Legitimate State Coercion of Filipino Workers in Prewar Hawai'i.” American Studies 45(3), 107-137.Hill, Tiffany (2009, December 30). “A Massacre Forgotten.” Honolulu. <a href="https://www.honolulumagazine.com/a-massacre-forgotten/" target="_blank">https://www.honolulumagazine.com/a-massacre-forgotten/</a>Alegado, Dean (2011, September 26). “Blood In The Fields: The Hanapepe Massacre And The 1924 Filipino Strike.” Positively Filipino. <a href="http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/2012/11/26/blood-in-the-fields-the-hanapepe-massacre-and-the-1942-filipino-strike" target="_blank">http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/2012/11/26/blood-in-the-fields-the-hanapepe-massacre-and-the-1942-filipino-strike</a>Sobeleski, Hank (2006, September 10). “Pablo Manapit and the Hanapepe Massacre.” The Garden Island. <a href="https://www.thegardenisland.com/2006/09/10/lifestyles/pablo-manlapit-and-the-hanapepe-massacre/" target="_blank">https://www.thegardenisland.com/2006/09/10/lifestyles/pablo-manlapit-and-the-hanapepe-massacre/</a>“Filipino Contract Laborers in Hawaii.” 1926. Monthly Labor Review 24(4), 4-9.Van Dijk, Kees (2015). “The Failed Annexation of Hawaii.” In Pacific Strife, Amsterdam University Press.</html>

Feb 18, 202313 min

S4 Ep 1S4E1: Spies for the Shogun

<html>It’s the beginning of the Spanish reign, and Manila is prime real estate in the eyes of the sea-going empires, including Japan. In the Edo court, the Japanese plan the invasion of the Philippines—three hundred years early.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Ka Yin Chan, Caspar (2022). “Revisiting the Battle of Macau in 1622: A Polyphonic Narrative.” The Newsletter (Autumn 2022), International Institute for Asian Studies.Turnbull, Stephen (2016). "Wars and Rumours of Wars: Japanese Plans to Invade the Philippines, 1593–1637.” Naval War College Review 69(4).“The Fall of the Arima Clan and the Crackdown on Christianity.” In Light and Shadow: Christian History, Resurrected. <a href="https://christian-nagasaki.jp/en/" target="_blank">https://christian-nagasaki.jp/en/</a>Barthell, W. “Matsukara Shigemasa.” In Sengokujidai.org.</html>

Feb 4, 202314 min

S3 Ep 24S3E13: The Friar Who Loved the Flowers and the Trees

<html>It was one of the most important scientific texts to emerge from the Spanish colonial period. But who was Father Manuel Blanco, and how did this priest-scientist amass his botanical knowledge?Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:“Manuel Maria Blanco Ramos,” in Real Academia dela Historia, Diccionario Biografico. <a href="https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/14559/manuel-maria-blanco-ramos" target="_blank">https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/14559/manuel-maria-blanco-ramos</a>Zimmer, Carl (2008, 20 August). “Darwin, Linnaeus, and One Sleepy Guy.” National Geographic. <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/darwin-linnaeus-and-one-sleepy-guy" target="_blank">https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/darwin-linnaeus-and-one-sleepy-guy</a>Santiago, Luciano P.R. (1993). “The painters of Flora de Filipinas (1877-1883).” Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 21(2), 87-112.Mojares, Resil (2013). “The Book That Did Not Exist.” In Isabelo’s Archive (141-146), Anvil Publishing.Stuart, Barry (1965). “The Birds and the Bees.” Recorded by Dean Martin.</html>

Jan 7, 202311 min

S3 Ep 22S3E12: Anak Sa Hapon—The Nikkeijin at the Outbreak of World War II

<html>For decades, the Filipino and Japanese communities lived side by side in Davao. Then, after the fateful attack on Pearl Harbor, neighbors became enemies. What happened then?Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Radovan, Jill Tan (22 September 2022). "How a Teacher in Davao Finally Met Her Japanese Father Three Decades After WWII." Esquire Philippines. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/half-japanese-teacher-davao-finally-meets-father-a2328-20220922-lfrm3" target="_blank">https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/half-japanese-teacher-davao-finally-meets-father-a2328-20220922-lfrm3</a>Abinales, Patricio N. (1997). “Davao-kuo: The Political Economy of a Japanese Settler Zone in Philippine Colonial Society.” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 6(1), 59-82.Jose, Lydia Yu &amp; Dacudao, Patricia Irene (2015). “Visible Japanese and Invisible Filipino: Narratives of the Development of Davao, 1900s to 1930s.” Philippine Studies: Historical &amp; Ethnographical Viewpoints 63(1), 101-129.Barriga, Maria Cynthia B. (2015). “The Asia-Pacific War in the Davao Settler Zone, December 1941.” Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies, 30(1): 56–90.Arguillas, C. (2017, January 12). “Encounters with Filipino-Japanese mestizos in Davao bring back memories and open windows to Japan’s Past." In Mindanews. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2017/01/reprint-encounters-with-filipino-japanese-mestizos-in-davao-bring-back-memories-and-open-windows-to-japans-past/" target="_blank">https://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2017/01/reprint-encounters-with-filipino-japanese-mestizos-in-davao-bring-back-memories-and-open-windows-to-japans-past/</a>Radovan, Jill Tan. Personal communication. 15 December 2022.</html>

Dec 17, 202216 min

S3 Ep 20S3E11: The Dawning of the Age of Steam

<html>Put on your boldest, brassiest steampunk goggles as we delve deep into the stories of the Philippines’ first steamships, steam engines, and steam-powered trains.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a> Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Jose, Ricardo. (2018) “Tranvia: Ang mga Riles sa Kamaynilaan” [Documentary] TVUP. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DshXso7EkM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DshXso7EkM</a>Doeppers. Daniel F. (2016) Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850-1945. Ateneo de Manila Press.Legarda, Benito J. (1999). After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines. Ateneo de Manila Press.Elena, Alberto and Ordóñez, Javier (2000). “Science, Technology, and the Spanish Colonial Experience in the Nineteenth Century.” In Nature and Empire: Science and the Colonial Enterprise (70-82). The University of Chicago Press.Cailloce, Laure (2020). “The Turbulent History of the Suez Canal.” CNRS News. <a href="https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/the-turbulent-history-of-the-suez-canal" target="_blank">https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/the-turbulent-history-of-the-suez-canal</a>Gamble, Adrian (2017). “Manila's Long-Lost 'Tranvias' Once the Envy of Asia.” Skyrise Cities. <a href="https://skyrisecities.com/news/2017/03/manilas-long-lost-tranvias-once-envy-asia" target="_blank">https://skyrisecities.com/news/2017/03/manilas-long-lost-tranvias-once-envy-asia</a></html>

Dec 4, 202215 min

S3 Ep 18S3E10: Auroran Gods

<html>"No anito. No tikbalang. No duwende." Nearly three hundred years ago, on the eastern coast of Luzon, this is what a priest told his converts. But what happens when his mission collides with the old gods and the old ways?Follow us on IG:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Dizon, Mark (2011). “Social and Spiritual Kinship in EarlyEighteenth-Century Missions on the Caraballo Mountains.” Philippine Studies 59(3), 367–398.Dizon, Mark (2015). “Spirit Beliefs, Murder, and Religious Change Among the Eighteenth Century Aeta and Ilongot in Eastern Central Luzon.” Philippine Studies 63(1), 3-38.Mataragnon, Rita (1977). “A Conceptual and Psychological Analysis of Sumpong.” In Pe-Pua, Rogelia (Ed.), Handbuk ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino (339-347). The University of the Philippines Press.Audio from Apocalypse Now © United Artists.Audio of “Tanging Yaman” from Bukas Palad Ministry.</html>

Nov 11, 202213 min

S3 Ep 16S3E9: A Day in the Life in Colonial Manila

<html>Swimming. Smoking. Sunsets. It’s just another day for the conyo colonials, living the good life inside Manila.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Mallat, Jean (1846). The Philippines: History, Geography, Customs, Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce of the Spanish Colonies in Oceania (Pura Santillan-Castrence, Trans.) (2021). National Historical Commission of the Philippines.Camagay, Ma. Luisa T. (1996). “Urban Development of Manila During the 19th Century.” In Enrique L. Victoriano (ed.), Historic Manila: Commemorative Lectures, 1993-1996 (33-42). Manila Historical Commission.Doran, Christine (1993). “Spanish and Mestizo Women of Manila.” Philippine Studies 41I(3), 269-286.Audio clip from The Fellowship of the Ring © 2001 New Line Cinema</html>

Oct 27, 202214 min

S3 Ep 14S3E8: God’s Own Medicine, Part Two

<html>Caught in between religion and revolution, opium turned from a politically dicey government cash crop into an evil and illegal narcotic. And the minds behind the anti-opium campaign in the Philippines would arguably set the tone for anti-drug wars around the globe.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Bamero, Alma (2006). “Opium: The Evolution of Policies, the Tolerance of the Vice, and the Proliferation of Contraband Trade in the Philippines,1843-1908.” Social Science Diliman 3(1-2), 49-83.Taft, William Howard (1903, July 13). [Letter from William H. Taft to Elihu Root]. <a href="https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record?libID=o41275" target="_blank">https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record?libID=o41275</a>Wertz, Daniel P. (2013). “Idealism, Imperialism, and Internationalism: Opium Politics in the Colonial Philippines, 1898-1925.” Modern Asian Studies, 47(2), 467-499.Ginsberg, Philip (1970). “The Chinese in the Philippine Revolution.” Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives 8(1). <a href="https://www.asj.upd.edu.ph/mediabox/archive/ASJ-08-01-1970/ginsburg-chinese-philippine-revolution.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.asj.upd.edu.ph/mediabox/archive/ASJ-08-01-1970/ginsburg-chinese-philippine-revolution.pdf</a>Zarco, Ricardo M. (1995). “A Short History of Narcotic Drug Addiction in the Philippines, 1521-1959.” Philippine Sociological Review 43(1/4), 1-15.Clip of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” from the United States Army Band’s YouTube page.</html>

Oct 13, 202215 min

S3 Ep 13S3E7: God’s Own Medicine, Part One

<html>Opium: the plant of joy, the poppy of oblivion, God’s own medicine. It changed the course of history in the nineteenth century. So what was its effect in the Philippines?Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Wertz, Daniel P. (2013). “Idealism, Imperialism, and Internationalism: Opium Politics in the Colonial Philippines, 1898-1925.” Modern Asian Studies, 47(2), 467-499.Dikotter, Frank (23 October 2003). “Patient Zero: China and the Myth of the Opium Plague” (Lecture). <a href="https://frankdikotter.com/publications/the-myth-of-opium.pdf" target="_blank">https://frankdikotter.com/publications/the-myth-of-opium.pdf</a>Zarco, Ricardo M. (1995). “A Short History of Narcotic Drug Addiction in the Philippines, 1521-1959.” Philippine Sociological Review 43(1/4), 1-15.Tosches, Nick (September 2000). “Confessions of an Opium Seeker.” Vanity Fair. <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2000/09/opium-dens-200009" target="_blank">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2000/09/opium-dens-200009</a>Gamella, Juan F., Martin, Elisa (1992). “Las Rentas de Anfion: El Monopolio Espanol del Opio en Filipinas (1844-1898) y su Rechazo por la Administracion Norteamericana.” Revisita de Indias 52(194), 61-106.Permanyer-Ugartemendia, Ander (2014). “Opium after the Manila Galleon: The Spanish involvement in the opium economy in East Asia (1815-1830).” Investigaciones de Historia Economica 10(3), 155-164. <a href="https://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-investigaciones-historia-economica-economic-328-articulo-opium-after-manila-galleon-the-S1698698914000605" target="_blank">https://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-investigaciones-historia-economica-economic-328-articulo-opium-after-manila-galleon-the-S1698698914000605</a>“Opium Cultivation and Heroin Processing in Southeast Asia.” (1992) US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration Office of Intelligence. <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/141189NCJRS.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/141189NCJRS.pdf</a>Audio clips from The Adventures of Tintin animated series by Ellipse Programme and Nelvana.</html>

Sep 29, 202215 min

S3 Ep 11S3E6: From "Constaboy" to Samurai

<html>In 1943, the Japanese selected 10 prisoners of war—veterans of the battles of Bataan and Corregidor, survivors of the Death March—for a "re-education" program in the heart of the empire. What could go wrong?Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Villarin, Mariano (1990). We Remember Bataan and Corregidor: The Story of the American and Filipino Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor and their Captivity. Gateway Press.Serizawa, Takamichi (2015). “Japanese Solidarity Discourse on the Philippines during the Second World War.” Philippine Studies: Historical &amp; Ethnographic Viewpoints 63(1), 71-100. Ateneo de Manila University. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/24672308" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/24672308</a>Karlin, Jason G. (2014) “Narratives of heroism in Meiji Japan.” In Gardner, A., Mackie V., Wohr U. (eds.) Gender and State in Modern Japan (48-67). Routledge.Kintanar, Thelma; Aquino, Clemen; Arinto, Patricia; Camagay, Ma. Luisa (2012). Kuwentong Bayan: Noong Panahon Ng Hapon—Everyday Life in a Time of War. University of the Philippines Press.Audio snippets are taken from NHK, archival Japanese newsreels, and The Last Samurai from Warner Bros. Pictures.</html>

Sep 8, 202217 min

S3 Ep 9S3E5: Sultan of Broadway

<html>“The Sultan of Sulu”, a smash hit Broadway play from the early 1900s, had it all: a musical monarch, multiple wives, plenty of laughs, and a sly, anti-imperialist message tucked into the libretto.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Mendoza, Victor Roman (2015). Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913. Duke University Press.Charbonneau, Oliver (2021). Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World. Ateneo de Manila University Press.Ade, George (1903). The Sultan of Sulu. R.H. Russell. <a href="https://archive.org/details/sultansulu00adegrich" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/sultansulu00adegrich</a>“Wasit to Paradise” (30 November, 1936). Time <a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,757014,00.html" target="_blank">https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,757014,00.html</a>Select audio snippets from the promotions and performance of the Canton Comic Opera Company, uploaded on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/AmericanMusicalProductions" target="_blank">the American Musical Productions YouTube channel.</a></html>

Aug 25, 202214 min

S3 Ep 7S3E4: The Coffee Dons (and Don'ts)

<html>From sleepy village… to coffee boomtown! The enterprising people of Lipa brewed beans into cold, hard cash, building fortunes that lasted generations. But how did the coffee boom turn into a bust?Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a> Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Castro, Bel S. (2003) Demythologising the History of Coffee in Lipa, Batangas in the 19th Century [Masteral Dissertation, University of Adelaide]. <a href="https://www.academia.edu/12326071/Demythologising_the_History_of_Coffee_in_Lipa_Batangas_in_the_19th_Century" target="_blank">Academia.edu</a>Robles, Eliodoro G. (1969). The Philippines in the 18th Century. Malaya Books, Inc.Hau, Caroline S. (2017). Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture. Ateneo de Manila University Press.Legarda, Benito (1999). After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change, and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century Philippines. Ateneo de Manila University Press.Francisco, Mariel and Arriola, Fe Maria (1987). The History of the Burgis. Fuego y Hielo, Inc.Katigbak, Renz (2019). "Donde Florecieron los Cafetos... Un Paseo por Lipa." Herencia Lipeña. <a href="https://herencialipena.com/2019/07/02/where-the-coffee-plants-bloomed/" target="_blank">https://herencialipena.com/2019/07/02/where-the-coffee-plants-bloomed/</a></html>

Aug 12, 202214 min

S3 Ep 5S3E3: Mugger, the Giant Crocodile

<html>As British, American, and French merchant houses and enterprises pour into the Philippines to fill the void left by the Galleon Trade, a giant crocodile lurks inside one such plantation in the wetlands of Laguna de Bay.Follow us on IG: @thecolonialdeptEmail us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>References:Gironiere, Paul P. De La (1854). Twenty Years in the Philippines (trans.) Harper &amp; Brothers, New York.Legarda, Benito (1999). After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change, and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century Philippines. Ateneo de Manila University Press.Powell, Alvin (July 2001). “Warm, fuzzy, weird, funny: The Museum(s) of Natural History spin some tall tales.” The Harvard Gazette <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2001/07/warm-fuzzy-weird-funny-the-museums-of-natural-history-spin-some-tall-tales/" target="_blank">https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2001/07/warm-fuzzy-weird-funny-the-museums-of-natural-history-spin-some-tall-tales/</a>Abdulmuti, Chelsy Mae (20 July 2021). “As humans close in on their habitat, crocodiles in the Philippines snap back.” Mongabay. <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/as-humans-close-in-on-their-habitat-crocodiles-in-the-philippines-snap-back/" target="_blank">https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/as-humans-close-in-on-their-habitat-crocodiles-in-the-philippines-snap-back/</a>Audio snippets from the Coretta Granberry vlog (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=064XsYc0418" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=064XsYc0418</a>) and GMA 7 News (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAONTRArGrI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAONTRArGrI</a>)</html>

Jul 26, 202215 min

S3 Ep 3S3E2: That Sweet Gangland Music

<html>In 1930s Shanghai, the sweet sound of slot machines and swinging bands soundtracked the bars and nightclubs of the city’s seedy underworld. Guess where they all came from.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/</a>References:French, Paul (2018). City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai. Picador.French, Paul (February 2018). “Gangs of Shanghai.” That’s Shanghai, 40-41.Guingona, Phillip (2016). “The Sundry Acquaintances of Dr. Albino Z. Sycip: Exploring the Shanghai-Manila Connection, circa 1910-1940.” Journal of World History, 27(1), 27-52. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43901823" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/43901823</a>Yamomo, Mele (2015). “Brokering sonic modernities: Migrant Manila musicians in the Asia Pacific, 1881-1948.” Popular Entertainment Studies, 6(2), 22-37.Crow, Carl and Kowalsky, V.V. (1935). “Illustrated Historical Map of Shanghai.” (Map) Norman B. Levinthal Map Center Collection at the Boston Public Library. <a href="https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:x633f974z" target="_blank">https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:x633f974z</a>Cover photo by Malcolm Rosholt, courtesy of Mei-Fei Elrick and Tess Johnston, University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China</html>

Jul 13, 202216 min

S3 Ep 1S3E1: The Silent Service

<html>Silent predators stalk the seas of the Philippines! But as the Japanese naval invasion commences, what role did these stealthy subs play in the archipelago’s defense?Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/</a>References:Parrish, Thomas (2004). Submarines: A History. Viking.Sturma, Michael (2021). “Submarine Special Missions: One Day in the Philippines.” The Great Circle, 34(1), 54-64.Sayre, Elizabeth E. (September 1942). “Submarine From Corregidor: The Escape.” The Atlantic.Eisner. Peter (2017). MacArthur’s Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II. Viking.Heritage NSW. “The Japanese midget submarine program." heritage.nsw.gov.au </html>

Jun 29, 202216 min

The Colonial Dept: A Trailer

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<html>What is The Colonial Dept.? Find out what makes this Philippine history podcast tick in this trailer.</html>

Jun 13, 20222 min

S2 Ep 13S2E13: The Hell Atop a Dead Volcano

<html>On the crater of Bud Dajo in Sulu, a brutal massacre of Moros sparks outrage… and a cover-up from colonial authorities eager to package its troops as heroes.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/</a>References:Charbonneau, Oliver (2021). Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World. (Philippine Edition.) Ateneo de Manila University Press.Sanford, Wayne (May 1982). “Battle of Bud Dajo: 6 March 1906.” Indiana Military History Journal, 7(2). Indiana Historical Society.Hawkins, Michael (March 2011). “Managing a Massacre: Savagery, Civility, and Gender in Moro Province in the Wake of Bud Dajo.” Philippine Studies, 59(1), 83-105. Ateneo de Manila University.Niedermeier, Silvan (April 2017). “Intimacy and Annihilation: Approaching the Enforcement of U.S. Colonial Rule in the Southern Philippines through a Private Photograph Collection.” InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, 25.</html>

Jun 1, 202214 min

S2 Ep 12S2E12: A Very Strange Map, Indeed

<html>In 2008, a long-lost map, dating back to the early 1600s, was discovered inside an Oxford library. On it was a depiction of the Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the great sea that lay in between them. What mysteries did this map hold?Follow us on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/</a>References:Brook, Timothy (2013). Mr. Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, A Lost Chart, and the South China Sea. Profile Books Ltd. Jacobs, J. Bruce (2014). China’s frail historical claims to the South China and East China Seas. American Enterprise Institute.Tomacruz Sofia (20 Sept 2019). "Ever heard of the 1734 Murillo Velarde map and why it should be renamed?" Rappler.</html>

May 16, 202215 min

S2 Ep 11S2E11: First Contact Feasts

<html>When first contact was made between the Spanish and the Filipinos, feasts followed, before the fighting. What food and drink did these seafarers encounter in their first meetings?Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/</a>References:Sta. Maria, Felice Prudente (2021). Pigafetta’s Philippine Picnic: Culinary Encounters During the First Circumnavigation, 1519-1522. The National Historical Commission of the Philippines.Alcina, Francisco Ignacio (2005). History of the Bisayan People in the Philippine Islands (Volume III. Cantius J. Kobak and Lucio Gutierrez, trans.). University of Santo Tomas Publishing House. 434-453.Chua, Xiao (28 May 2021). “Humabon: Quintessential Filipino ‘pulitiko’.” Manila Times.Ocampo, Ambeth (12 May 2021). “Massacre in Cebu.” Philippine Daily Inquirer.</html>

Apr 19, 202214 min

S2 Ep 10S2E10: Mr. Burnham Goes to Baguio

<html>Gazing out at the sweeping highlands of northern Luzon, architect Daniel Burnham conjures up an ambitious, audacious vision: a summer capital for America’s new prize.Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/</a>References:Hines, Thomas S. (1988). “No Little Plans: The Achievement of Daniel Burnham.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, (13)2, 96-105.Kirsch, Scott (2017). “Aesthetic Regime Change The Burnham Plans and US Landscape Imperialism in the Philippines.” Philippine Studies: Historical &amp; Ethnographic Viewpoints, 65(3), 315-356.Yeoh, Seng-Guan (2011). "Beyond The Commerce Of Man: Street Vending, Sidewalks, And Public Space In A Mountain City In The Philippines.” Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development. 40(3/4), 285-317.Wise, Edwin (2019). Manila, City of Islands. Ateneo de Manila University Press.Cimatu, Frank (20 September 2019). “Magalong prioritizes preservation of Baguio heirlooms.” Rappler.Comanda, Zaldy (11 May 2021). “Magalong to pursue P480M Burnham Park development.” Manila Bulletin.Santiago, Arline. “The Cordillera Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Land.” Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.</html>

Apr 6, 202214 min

S2 Ep 9S2E9: Aztec Eagles, Philippine Skies

<html>Let’s take to the wild blue yonder with the Aguilas Aztecas, a squadron of volunteer fighter pilots from Mexico who helped liberate the Philippines from the Japanese. References: Lozano, Gustavo Vazquez (2021). 201st Squadron: The Aztec Eagles—The History of the Mexican Pilots Who Fought In World War II. Libros de Mexico.Parker, Richard (27 May 2020). “When the Mexican Air Force Went To War Alongside America.” The New York Times Magazine.Guevara, Lucy (2000). "Interview with Reynaldo Perez Gallardo." Voces Oral History Center, The University of Texas at Austin. <a href="https://voces.lib.utexas.edu/collections/stories/reynaldo-perez-gallardo" target="_blank">voces.lib.utexas.edu/collections/stories/reynaldo-perez-gallardo</a>Albala, Paloma (2003). “Hispanic Words of Indoamerican Origin in the Philippines.” In Philippine Studies 51(1), 125Charles, Ronald W. (1947). Troopships of World War II. The Army Transportation Association. history.army.mil/documents/WWII/wwii_Troopships.pdfHutton, Ted (12 November 2005). “Veteran pilots remember P-47.” Orlando Sun-Sentinel. <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2005-11-12-pilots12-story.html" target="_blank">orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2005-11-12-pilots12-story.html</a>Lasco, Gideon (25 January 2022). “How Filipino Sailors—and Coconuts—Helped Create Mexico’s National Drink.” <a href="https://www.sapiens.org/column/entanglements/tequila-origins-tuba/" target="_blank">sapiens.org/column/entanglements/tequila-origins-tuba</a></html>

Mar 22, 202216 min

S2 Ep 8S2E8: Conceiving Concepcion, Part Two (Remastered)

<html>The conclusion of our conversation with Albert Samaha, author of the critically acclaimed Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes. What did he learn about writing a book that spans five centuries of Philippine and American history? Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Follow us on TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thecolonialdept" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>The book version of this podcast, entitled Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946, is now available. Visit my<a href="https://www.faction.press/product-page/silk-silver-spices-slaves-philippines-history" target="_blank"> publisher’s website</a> for availability. (An ebook version is also <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silk-Silver-Spices-Slaves-Philippine-ebook/dp/B0D5JSXC5M" target="_blank">available on Amazon.</a>) References:Samaha, Albert (2021). Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes. Riverhead Books. Samaha, Albert (22 February 2022). Personal communication (Zoom interview).</html>

Mar 5, 202212 min

S2 Ep 7S2E7: Conceiving Concepcion, Part One (Remastered)

<html>Count a Maranao princess and an American spy among this author’s ancestors. Albert Samaha, author of Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes, guests in this episode as he discusses his critically acclaimed book. Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Follow us on TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thecolonialdept" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>The book version of this podcast, entitled Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946, is now available. Visit my<a href="https://www.faction.press/product-page/silk-silver-spices-slaves-philippines-history" target="_blank"> publisher’s website</a> for availability. (An ebook version is also <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silk-Silver-Spices-Slaves-Philippine-ebook/dp/B0D5JSXC5M" target="_blank">available on Amazon.</a>) References:Samaha, Albert (2021). Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes. Riverhead Books. Samaha, Albert (22 February 2022). Personal communication (Zoom interview).</html>

Feb 26, 202215 min

S2 Ep 6S2E6: E-RAT-icate!

<html>To combat an outbreak of bubonic plague in turn-of-the-century Manila, the American authorities assembled a crack force of ratcatchers and waged a war against rodents.</html>

Feb 12, 202212 min

S2 Ep 5S2E5: A Dream of Silk

<html>Over the course of the Galleon Trade, the Spanish bought silk from China for millions of silver pieces. But what if, some canny entrepreneurs thought, the Philippines made its own silk industry?</html>

Jan 29, 202214 min

S2 Ep 4S2E4: The Walls of Intramuros

<html>For centuries, the forbidding stone walls of Intramuros protected the forces occupying the archipelago. How were they built? How were they tested? And how did they eventually fall? </html>

Jan 14, 202217 min

S2 Ep 3S2E3: From Cambodia With Love

<html>In 1872, the year of the execution of Gomburza, a king visits the Philippines… and falls head over heels in love with a lady from Bulacan.</html>

Dec 15, 202115 min

S2 Ep 2S2E2: Homo Caudatus

<html>From missionary reports to primetime sitcoms, the occupiers of the Philippines have obsessed about Filipinos, monkeys, and that strange question of whether the inhabitants of the archipelago possessed tails.</html>

Nov 30, 202112 min

S2 Ep 1S2E1: Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves (Remastered)

<html>When we think of the Galleon Trade, we usually think of rich cargoes of silver, or spices, or silk. But it also carried human beings, in chains, from Manila, to be sold in Mexico. This was the Transpacific slave trade. Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Follow us on TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thecolonialdept" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>The book version of this podcast is called Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales From the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946. You can find out more about it <a href="https://www.faction.press/product-page/silk-silver-spices-slaves-philippines-history" target="_blank">here.</a> (An ebook version is also <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silk-Silver-Spices-Slaves-Philippine-ebook/dp/B0D5JSXC5M" target="_blank">available on Amazon</a>.)References:Seijas, Tatiana (2014). Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians. Cambridge University Press.“The Amistad Case” (undated). National Archives and Records Administration. <a href="https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/amistad" target="_blank">https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/amistad</a>Scott, William Henry (1991). Slavery in the Spanish Philippines. De La Salle University Press.Legarda, Benito (1999). After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change, and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century Philippines. Ateneo de Manila University Press.</html>

Nov 16, 202118 min

A Sneak Peek of Season 2

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<html>As The Colonial Dept moves onto a new season, we look back at our first thirteen episodes... and give a sneak peek of the stories that are coming next. The archives of the occupied Philippines are rich with untold stories, and we're here to bring them to light.</html>

Nov 3, 20213 min

S1 Ep 13S1E13: Tornaviaje

<html>Magellan may have been the first European to sail to the Philippines, but it would be an aged friar, charts in hand, eye to the east, who would steer the Philippines into the colonial age.</html>

Oct 20, 202118 min

S1 Ep 12S1E12: The Pearl, and Plunder, of the Orient Seas

<html>In the aftermath of the British conquest of Manila, the East India Company had to answer an important question: How will they wring every penny they could out of their new prize?</html>

Oct 5, 202119 min

S1 Ep 11S1E11: Lights, Camera, Propaganda!

<html>To win the battle of hearts and minds in their newly conquered colony, both the Americans and Japanese use a terrifying new weapon: cinema.</html>

Sep 21, 202117 min

S1 Ep 10S1E10: You Otter Get Rich In Manila

<html>From the coves of Spanish California, to the jade courts of the Qing Dynasty—and in the middle, the great port city of Manila. This is the story of the Philippine otter fur trade.</html>

Sep 7, 202119 min

S1 Ep 9S1E9: Spain's Last Stand, Part Two

<html>Even as a new war swept the fledgling republic, one final, furious ember of the Spanish Empire still burned in Baler. And try as Spain, the US, and the Philippines might, this stronghold would not surrender. Part 2/2</html>

Aug 25, 202121 min

S1 Ep 8S1E8: Spain's Last Stand, Part One

<html>As the empire crumbled around them, a detachment of Spanish troops transforms the church of Baler into a fortress... one that would outlast the Spanish surrender. This is the story of the Siege of Baler. Part 1/2</html>

Aug 11, 202119 min