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READINGS IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY
Group 1
Who is Santiago Alvarez?
Santiago Alvarez
MEMOIRS OF A GENERAL
How come his writing is a primary source?
After the revolution:
• Enrolled at the University of Santo Tomas
• Transferred to the Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Bachelor of Arts
• Liceo de Manila - Law
Establishment of the American civil government in the Philippines
• He become president in the organization of the Nacionalista Party of its directorate.
• Born on July 25, 1872
• A revolutionary general a founder and honorary president of the first directorate of the Nacionalista Party.
Santiago Alvarez
Santiago Alvarez
Santiago Alvarez’ Memoirs of a General
• account was written
the same time as the event occurred
• March 25, 1897
• March 27, 1897
Memoirs of a General
• Also known as “Kidlat ng Apoy”
• Hero of the Battle of Dalahican at Cavite City
• 1902 - he presided over the Junta Magna de la Comision de la Paz (Great Council of the Peace Commission).
• October 30, 1930 - he died at age 58 in San Pablo City and was buried at the San Pablo municipal cemetery.
A primary source tends to be something recorded (usually in writing) by someone who witnessed an event;
Santiago Alvarez
experienced that event, or talked to someone who’d had direct involvement in that event.
Therefore, Santiago Virata Álvarez became a primary source because of his involvement to the Philippine Revolution.
Primary Source
How come his writing is a primary source?
A primary source can almost be as good as actually having been right there when important historical events took place.
Tejeros Convention Site, Cavite
CHART
"Tejeros Convention"
Create a chart comparing in details the accounts of the two writers regarding the
“tejeros convention”.
• account was written based on notes he kept about the events of the revolution and records
• entrusted by the “original founders of the Katipunan”
Santiago Alvarez’
Santiago Alvarez’ Memoirs of the General
Memoirs of the General
March 25, 1897
March 27, 1897
Tejeros
Parish house in Tanza
• account was written in 1947 as an entry in a National Bonifacio Biography
• 1956 - year published
December 1896
Teodoro Agoncillo’s
January 2, 1897
Teodoro Agoncillo’s Revolt of the Masses
March 22, 1897
Revolt of the Masses
Talisay, Batangas
Noveleta
House of Juan Castañeda in Imus
Between Primary and Secondary sources
Santiago Alvarez account was written at the same time as the event occurred that is why his writing became the primary source.
primary is more believable than secondary sources
Form your Internal and External criticisms
Primary source is the firsthand evidence
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CRITISISMS
While Teodoro Agoncillo is just not pinpointing the event in Tejeros convention but also the significant events before the Tejeros convention.
Secondary source summarized the story or the event, which can lead to complications and vague source
over the two sources.