In 2019, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines’ National Quincentennial Committee declared that “Lapulapu” without the hyphen is the correct spelling of the name of the man celebrated ...

“Magellan” opens with a young girl looking through a dense thicket of foliage and spotting something alarming. “I saw a white man,” she tells the residents of her remote island village in the ...

AROUND this time of year in 1521, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan was in Philippine waters. In a little over three weeks from today, 504 years ago, he would be dead, killed by tribesmen led by ...