In 1521, when his galleon finally cut through the treacherous Pacific Ocean, when the island of Cebu first appeared in his sight at the edge of the horizon, when its slender coconut trees and thatched ...

My students find me weird because in the age of Google and Waze, I continue to be intrigued by physical maps of the ...

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new film which re-examines the discovery of the Philippines by European explorers ...