WHILE still a young history instructor, I became a member of the Bagong Kasaysayan Inc., Adhika ng Pilipinas and Philippine National Historical Society. Yet, there was still one remaining historical association: the Philippine Historical Association (PHA). I saw its historians speak at the International Association of Historians of Asia Conference in Makati in 2006 and attended its 2007 annual conference on “Controversies and Fallacies in Philippine History” at the National Library of the Philippines and thought of them as incredibly old-fashioned traditional historians. There was even a cruel joke that because PHA was composed of old people, it meant Philippine Home for the Aged.
I had the arrogance of youth and thought I knew the latest in historical scholarship, mostly dismissing people and ideas that did not come from the same university.
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