History at your fingertips

undergraduate history course “Under Two Empires: The Philippines under Spain and the United States” and a graduate seminar on Rizal taught from primary sources. While one should not compare lemons with kalamansi, I could not help but envy my US-based students, particularly the Fil-Ams, who had easy access to primary sources for their term papers.

While researching in the Bentley and the Clements, I saw some of the undergrads hard at work sifting through boxes of old paper and transcribing manuscripts they found relevant. Those who browsed through photographs had a bigger challenge because they had to make sense of the images and write out their impressions and conclusions. I kicked myself for not having brought the class to these repositories earlier.

Almost all Filipino scholars head to the Bentley Historical Library because that is where one will find papers relative to the History of Michigan, particularly the “Michigan Men” who went to the Philippines. Among them: Dean C. Worcester, Frank Murphy, Joseph Ralston Hayden, and George Malcolm, and many more. Malcolm’s name is on Malcolm Hall at the University of the Philippines College of Law. Murphy is a Quezon City district that used to be associated with Camp Murphy, now Camp Aguinaldo.

What really got me excited was that the Clements had a copy of the 1525 “De Moluccis Insulis” by Maximilianus Transylvanus that is technically the first book to make reference to the Philippines as it was drawn from interviews of the survivors of the Magellan expedition. The National Library of the Philippines has a beat-up copy in its vault; the Clements copy was pristine, like it had just come from the printing press.

Philippine history in college is now taught using primary sources available online or in books. A real pity that the majority of Filipino students without access to original documents and first editions in Manila will never experience literally holding history in their hands, unlike the Michigan Fil-Ams who have these literally at their fingertips.

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