This is the story of what happened to the Philippines after World War II and after formal independence in 1946 — a country ...

The Philippines’ fight for independence was a long struggle stretching over almost 50 years and ending in 1946 when the U.S. commonwealth officially became its own country. This year, March 24 marks ...

The date: July Fourth. A new nation celebrates its independence from the world’s most powerful empire. But this time, the location was Manila, the year was 1946 and the empire in question was the ...

This video follows the Philippines from the end of Spanish rule into American occupation, war, Japanese invasion, guerrilla resistance, and eventual independence. After the Spanish-American War, ...

A Filipino medical assistant bandages the injured arm of a woman in a PCAU clinic at San Rogue on Leyte Island, January 1945. Photo courtesy David Smollar America’s World War II return to the ...

When my wife and I were young parents living in Manhattan, we rented an apartment above a psychiatrist with many wealthy patients. Through each hour of the working day, a succession of limousines and ...

The man whose picture graces our blue-colored P100 bills is Manuel A. Roxas, the first president of the new Republic of the Philippines. He was the fifth Philippine president, if, as some historians ...