It may interest the digital generation that Jose Rizal took two selfies without a cell phone or digicam. He did the next best thing in the late 19th century—he drew himself with a pencil on paper.

Rizal was neither a criolle like most of the leading figures in the struggle for independence during the 19th Century. Born in a small town in the Philippines (Calamba), his family, a well-off ...

JOSE RIZAL lived in the 19th century, when abuse, oppression, and discrimination dominated the country. The Spaniards ruled the Philippines by implementing systems which were in their favor. Together ...

Rizal’s treatment of borrowed vocabulary as a source of historical evidence was innovative in the Philippines at the turn of the 19th century. Biding his time as an exile in Dapitan ...

Jose Rizal’s ideals were a product and composite of the teachings of what is known as the philosophy of Enlightenment. That stage of philosophy marked the dawn of the eighteenth century in ...

Blumentritt is a historic street in downtown Manila, an LRT station, and a public market named in honor of a 19th-century Czech schoolmaster ... as José Rizal’s BFF (best friend forever).

Her latest novel to appear in the United States, “The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata,” wreaks playful and learned havoc on the life and work of the 19th-century writer José Rizal.

Dressed in 19th-century outfits, Dapitanons reenact Jose Rizal's walk from the Santa Cruz beach to the residence of the Spanish governor with former Manila mayor Isko Moreno portraying the ...