TALA: An Online Journal of History

13/08/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to announce that TALA: An Online Journal of History is accepting submissions for its Volume 8, number 2 issue (December 2025). You may submit your articles, review articles, and book reviews directly to our website.For submissions, head to: http://talakasaysayan.org/.../talakasay.../about/submissions
For inquiries and concerns, you may email us at [email protected].

11/07/2025

"This book review aims to examine and analyze the work of Ricardo Trota Jose, Philippine Army, 1935-1942. A highly regarded Filipino military historian, Dr. Jose examines the history of the Philippine Army during the Commonwealth era, leading to the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific. "

Read the rest of the book review here:

10/07/2025

"The United States had rapidly become the leading industrial power, and with the end of the Western expansion, many Republicans yearned for overseas territories to control. This represented an abrupt shift as it had previously led one of the first anti-colonial revolutions, yet now emerged as a colonial power itself. As is often the case today, America was deeply divided—the pro-imperialists versus the anti-imperialists, the conservatives versus the liberals."

Read the rest of the article here: https://talakasaysayan.org/index.php/talakasaysayan/article/view/213

09/07/2025

"After the surrender of General William Sharp in 1942, the Filipino-American forces in the Visayas and Mindanao fell into the hands of the Japanese Imperial forces. However, not all forces submitted to the Japanese aggressors. Some fighters in Mindanao, particularly in the Zamboanga Peninsula, continued their resistance with the support of the masses. "

Read the rest of the article here: https://talakasaysayan.org/index.php/talakasaysayan/article/view/216

08/07/2025

"Ang papel na ito ay tumatalakay sa mga naging epekto ng lindol sa Pangasinan noong 1880 at kaakibat na tugon ng pamahalaang Kastila at interpretasyon ng mamamayan."

Basahin ang buong artikulo dito: https://talakasaysayan.org/index.php/talakasaysayan/article/view/192

07/07/2025

"Itinuring ng Estados Unidos ang industriya ng pag-aabaka sa Pilipinas bilang isa sa mga pinakamahahalagang industriyang dapat lapatan ng mga repormang pang-agraryo noong ika-20 dantaon. "

Basahin ang buong artikulo dito: https://talakasaysayan.org/index.php/talakasaysayan/article/view/239

06/07/2025

"The Methodist tradition utilizes hymns as a pathway to reinforce theology and doctrine. Within the context of the Philippine United Methodist Church, its hymnody is a product of Methodist Episcopal missions during the 20th century American settlement. "

Read the rest of the article here: https://talakasaysayan.org/index.php/talakasaysayan/article/view/223

05/07/2025

"This issue offers compelling articles on ecological discourses, plant pathology, natural disaster, local resistance during the Japanese occupation, and imperialism."

Read the rest of our latest issue's editor's note here:

03/07/2025

Friends, Filipinos, and enthusiasts of history, lend us your ears!

TALA's volume 8 number 1, June 2025 issue is now available online on the eve of the 79th anniversary of Philippine Republic Day, now renamed as Philippine-American Friendship Day. We invite our dear readers to journey with us towards paving the path for history to be entrenched into the educational curriculum, from basic education to higher education.

History shall and always will be the discipline that ties the various experiences of a nation into a common goal: a good life rooted in democratic ideology where the human person can exercise his full agency and autonomy. In Filipino we know this simply as, "maginhawang buhay," a thread that binds the national consciousness ever since that fateful day of 4 July 1945 when the Philippine flag was raised alone once again, symbolizing our sovereignty and independence from any foreign colonizer.

Our national consciousness is embedded in our national identity. The best way to preserve our identity is by reading, writing, and understanding the link of our past, our history, to who we are as of this moment. For in understanding our present, we know the steps to take in the future.

We hope this first of two issues for our eighth volume will lead you, our dear readers, towards this journey we choose to take, a journey towards a maginhawang buhay.

The Editorial Board
3 July 2025

https://talakasaysayan.org/index.php/talakasaysayan

20/04/2025