The new film Magellan chronicles the life of Portuguese colonizer Ferdinand Magellan, the first person to circumnavigate the globe. Known for his voyage crossing the Pacific Ocean and landing on the ...

The Chocolate Hills are 1,776 mounds on Bohol Island in the Philippines where grassy cover turns brown during the dry season.

Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of ...

The Philippines didn’t become a unified nation before colonization—Spain arrived while the islands were still divided into smaller groups, rival chiefs, and early sultanates. Magellan’s first ...

Moving to a new city might feel disastrous to a teen. But leaving your life behind and starting a new one in another country?

MANILA – The rich culture and ethnographic heritage of the Yakan people of Basilan took center stage as National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) Chair Regalado Trota Jose Jr. presented ...

Long condemned as a traitor, Malinche is being reimagined as a brilliant Indigenous survivor whose intelligence and resilience helped shape Mexico, amid a feminist and cultural reckoning that is ...

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A year after President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term, his approval rating remains at around 45%, according to Morning Consult’s weekly polling—though voters’ views of his handling of ...

Discoveries at a controversial southeastern archaeological site could potentially push back the timelines for human arrival ...