This Month Years Ago
The Young Citizen was an illustrated monthly magazine for young people in English edited by Jose E. Romero, Community Publishers Inc. It had links with the American boy scouts movement, and its public was mainly first, second, and third-grade students. The magazine was approved by the Bureau of Education for Public Schools, and most of its content was related to the education of the young Filipinos in civil virtues. It included sections on the learning of English, natural sciences, and history, and included poems and short stories for children in English, as well as games and crosswords. Especially interesting are the book reviews and recommendations and the letters and poems written by children.
One of its sections, "This Month Years Ago", remembered historical events each month. On num. 7, August 1935, the column remembered the battle of Manila and the Philippine Revolution from the “benevolent assimilation” ideology directly after the Tydings–McDuffie Act of 1934. In a very easy manner, the magazine unproblematically illustrated how the Spanish surrendered, their flag was pulled down and the “American wall was raised over the walled city [and] American government was thus introduced for the first time into the Philippines”.
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Fecha
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1935-08
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Fuente
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The Young Citizen, vol. 1, num 7, August 1935, p. 186. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.
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Editor
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Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository
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Colaborador
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Emilio Vivó Capdevila
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Idioma
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English
