Marlen V. Ronquillo
THE Zaide style of writing history, mechanical and without gems of illuminating facts about epic events in our nation’s life, has been the standard approach to the all-too-critical task of writing our history books. Agoncillo’s preferred method—subversive by Zaide’s standards—was never really favored by the education establishment, which prefers history books to be bland chronologies, not factual accounting of important events and the behavior of the major actors.