We have just added an interesting ‘Audio Book’ by Davis P. Barrows titled the  History of the Philippines. The book was written in the early 1900s and is an interesting document for that reason alone. The commentary is not always, what we would today, consider ‘POLITICALLY CORRECT’ and we caution our readers on that.

David Prescott Barrows (June 27, 1873 – September 5, 1954) was an American anthropologist, explorer, and educator. Born in Chicago in 1874, his family moved to California. He showed a keen interest in the life and customs of the American Indians, and was said to have “spent almost every summer during the period 1890–1899 in research work among the tribes of southern California and in the Colorado Desert.” He later became President of the University of California.

Barrows taught history in the state normal school in San Diego. In 1900, he got an assignment as superintendent of schools for Manila by William Howard Taft, president of the Philippine Commission. His career in Philippines was eventful as he was designated to the post of Chief of the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes of the Philippine Islands, and also reconnoitered many unknown areas in the Philippines. In 1903, as general superintendent of education for the Islands, he was instrumental in total reorganization of the educational system.^[5] After his return from Philippines, he worked for the University of California, holding the post of professor of education and then Dean of the Graduate School, in 1910. In 1911, he became professor of political science, and in 1913, was the Dean of the Faculties.

click on link to listen to Barrows’ History of the Philippines and:  “The Rest of the Story“