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The Colonial Dept.

Welcome to the Colonial Department, the podcast where we take long-lost stories from Philippine colonial history and bring them to life. Follow us on IG: @thecolonialdept

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00:12:17

S2E8: Conceiving Concepcion, Part Two

The Colonial Dept. ·

2022/03/05

The conclusion of our conversation with Albert Samaha, author of the critically acclaimed Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes. What did he learn about writing a book that spans five centuries of Philippine and American history?

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00:15:20

S2E7: Conceiving Concepcion, Part One

The Colonial Dept. ·

2022/02/26

Count a Maranao princess and an American spy among this author's ancestors. Albert Samaha, author of "Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes", guests in this episode as he discusses his critically acclaimed book.

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00:12:24

S2E6: E-RAT-icate!

The Colonial Dept. ·

2022/02/12

To combat an outbreak of bubonic plague in turn-of-the-century Manila, the American authorities assembled a crack force of ratcatchers and waged a war against rodents.

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00:14:06

S2E5: A Dream of Silk

The Colonial Dept. ·

2022/01/29

Over the course of the Galleon Trade, the Spanish bought silk from China for millions of silver pieces. But what if, some canny entrepreneurs thought, the Philippines made its own silk industry?

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00:17:49

S2E4: The Walls of Intramuros

The Colonial Dept. ·

2022/01/14

For centuries, the forbidding stone walls of Intramuros protected the forces occupying the archipelago. How were they built? How were they tested? And how did they eventually fall?

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00:15:33

S2E3: From Cambodia With Love

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/12/15

In 1872, the year of the execution of Gomburza, a king visits the Philippines… and falls head over heels in love with a lady from Bulacan.

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00:12:39

S2E2: Homo Caudatus

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/11/30

From missionary reports to primetime sitcoms, the occupiers of the Philippines have obsessed about Filipinos, monkeys, and that strange question of whether the inhabitants of the archipelago possessed tails.

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00:19:44

S2E1: Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/11/16

When we think of the Galleon Trade, we usually think of rich cargoes of silver, or spices, or silk. But it also carried human beings, in chains, from Manila, to be sold in Mexico. This was the Transpacific slave trade.

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00:03:57

A Sneak Peek of Season 2

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/11/03

As The Colonial Dept moves onto a new season, we look back at our first thirteen episodes... and give a sneak peek of the stories that are coming next. The archives of the occupied Philippines are rich with untold stories, and we're here to bring them to light.

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00:18:52

S1E13: Tornaviaje

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/10/20

Magellan may have been the first European to sail to the Philippines, but it would be an aged friar, charts in hand, eye to the east, who would steer the Philippines into the colonial age.

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00:19:02

S1E12: The Pearl, and Plunder, of the Orient Seas

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/10/05

In the aftermath of the British conquest of Manila, the East India Company had to answer an important question: How will they wring every penny they could out of their new prize?

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00:17:02

S1E11: Lights, Camera, Propaganda!

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/09/21

To win the battle of hearts and minds in their newly conquered colony, both the Americans and Japanese use a terrifying new weapon: cinema.

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00:19:41

S1E10: You Otter Get Rich In Manila

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/09/07

From the coves of Spanish California, to the jade courts of the Qing Dynasty—and in the middle, the great port city of Manila. This is the story of the Philippine otter fur trade.

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00:21:13

S1E9: Spain's Last Stand, Part Two

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/08/25

Even as a new war swept the fledgling republic, one final, furious ember of the Spanish Empire still burned in Baler. And try as Spain, the US, and the Philippines might, this stronghold would not surrender. Part 2/2

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00:19:54

S1E8: Spain's Last Stand, Part One

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/08/11

As the empire crumbled around them, a detachment of Spanish troops transforms the church of Baler into a fortress... one that would outlast the Spanish surrender. This is the story of the Siege of Baler. Part 1/2

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00:21:17

S1E7: Seven Months of Darkness

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/07/28

From May to December 1754, all of Taal was ash, and tremor, and hell, as the deadly volcano's eruption changed the face of Southern Luzon forever.

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00:21:34

S1E6: Manilaner—The Story of a Jewish Refugee in Manila

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/07/13

Born in 1931, Frank Ephraim grew up under the shadow of Nazi tyranny. But after the horrors of Kristallnacht, his family decided to flee to the Philippines—a country that was opening its borders when many others were closing theirs.

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00:20:29

S1E5: That Strange Disease Called Philippinitis

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/06/30

Anxious? Depressed? Fatigued? Slowly losing your mind? In their new colony, American colonial officers began succumbing to a strange mental disorder that they could not explain.

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00:25:42

S1E4: The Lost Plan of Z

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/06/16

The Japanese called it Z Sakusen: Operation Z, a last-ditch plan to turn the tide of the war. And then, in 1944, on the Cebu coast, a copy of the plans was lost.

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00:21:27

S1E3: Baseball Country

The Colonial Dept. ·

2021/06/01

The Americans bring professional sports to the archipelago, and in 1914—during Philippine baseball's golden age—a match is fought between an all-Filipino team and an all-Black team.

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