The Colonial Dept. Podcast
1) S6E1: The Dudes and Dandies of Colonial Manila
Cravats. Top hats. Barongs. Striped pants. Wide, wide waistbands. Well-dressed men are on the prowl in Luneta, turning heads and inciting whispers. Let’s meet these fashionable fops, shall we? Follow ...Show More
2) Extra Credit: The socialites, spies, and convicts who dined at Tom’s Dixie Kitchen
From the Panlilios of Pampanga to future gangster Jack Riley, Tom’s Dixie Kitchen pops up in the biographies of some unexpected people. (Listen to S7E5 before listening to this one!
3) S7E5: Inside Tom’s Dixie Kitchen, Prewar Manila’s Hottest Restaurant
Governors and gangsters, spies and socialites—it seemed that all of Manila dined out at the two-floor restaurant that rose above the bustle of Plaza Goiti. Inside, waiters handed you menus with more t...Show More
4) Extra Credit: “Epidemia maligna”—the devastating outbreaks that hit Luzon and Visayas in the late 1500s
“Peste general.” “Pestilencial epidemia.” “Epidemia maligna.” In the Philippine archipelago, Spanish chroniclers wrote of deadly epidemics that struck their new possession. (Listen to S7E4 before this...Show More
5) S7E4: The Plague Years
Smallpox was one of the deadliest diseases known to man—and not even the Philippines was immune to its virulent dangers! But how did the dreaded disease arrive on our shores? And what devastating effe...Show More
6) Extra Credit: The complicated story of the 1800s coffee boom
Crucial to the story of coffee in the Philippines is the industry’s boom years in Lipa during the late 1800s. What really happened then? (Listen to S7E3 before this one.)
7) S7E3: A Short Philippine History of Beverages
Coffee. Tea. Cocoa. The three have a surprisingly rich, complex, and layered history in the Philippines. How did they arrive here, and what effect did they have in the archipelago’s colonial period?Fo...Show More
8) Extra Credit: More Ottoman links to the Philippine colonial period
This faraway empire shows up in unexpected pages of our history. (Listen to S7E2 before this one.)
9) S7E2: An Ottoman Emissary in Mindanao
As the United States moves to take over Mindanao, both the Americans and the Moros invoke the name of the Ottoman Empire—seat of the Caliph—to support their campaigns. But in 1914, an actual Ottoman e...Show More
10) Extra Credit: Pianos in 1800s Phillippines
In the last decades of Spanish rule in the Philippines, pianos—both foreign and local—provided the tinkling music of the colony’s rising middle class. (Listen to S7E1 before this one.)