![]() Our successive governments have not been kind to these two cultural institutions, and how our own government treated them affected the attitude of the great mass of the people, the educated as well as the half-educated and the uneducated. A survey of the historical works published during the period I call the Age of Kalaw, gives the impression that Filipinos are not historically minded, an impression that finds partial justification in the way we treat our libraries and archives. This may be ascribed to several reasons, principal among which are, first, because the Filipinos were not yet a free people, being then under the Spaniards and later under the Americans and therefore did not enjoy a wide latitude of freedom so necessary in intellectual and artistic flowering second, the lack of inducement in the form of wide readership which, in turn, is dependent on the rate of literacy and lastly, history as a discipline was, insofar as Filipinos were and still are concerned, not considered as important and popular as literature, particularly poetry. Kalaw in 1940 are necessarily limited not only in number but also in scope. ![]() Historical writings by Filipinos from the 1880s to the death of Teodoro M. ![]() ![]() Philippine Historiography in the Age of Kalaw 1 Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2003. ![]() "Philippine Historiography in the Age of Kalaw." In History and Culture, Language and Literature: Selected Essays of Teodoro A. ![]()
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