The Philippines and Southeast Asia
Steve Rood’s first entry explores some ideas concerning the Philippines in the context of Southeast Asia’s history. This is something very little discussed in the mainstream media, though some...
View ArticleHistory and Reality: Part I: Making Sense of Maps
Since the second season of Game of Thrones has started, quite a few viewers and readers will be hunting down maps of Westeros, the imaginary world in which the series takes place. The Map of Westeros...
View ArticleHistory and Reality: Part II: The Grand Sweep of Events
So we started off with overlaying historical maps on Google Earth. Let’s start this entry with our part of the world. Let’s then take this map: The Imperial Powers in the Far East and Pacific, 1941...
View ArticleHistory and Reality III: The Landscape of Memory
Seventy years ago, today, on April 8, 1942, a great earthquake took place (apparently magnitude 7.5), on the eve of the surrender of our forces in Bataan: and you can read about it in a young officer’s...
View ArticleHistory and Reality: Part IV, Then and Now
I was struck by the ongoing project of a Russian, Sergey Larenkov. He has juxtaposed World War II photos and their present-day locations, resulting in many haunting images. Only a few places in the...
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