Marking Philippine history

How does one settle the debate over Baguio’s “official flower”? Should it be by legislation, through a city ordinance, a presidential proclamation, or an act of Congress, or should it be by acclamation, the flower with the most votes wins? Long before the city resolution from 1991 adopting Xerochrysum bracteatum aka strawflowers aka “everlasting” as…

Ambeth Ocampo
Ambeth Ocampo
Professor of History

I research, write, teach, and lecture on Philippine history, so that the future will stop reading like the past.

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