Meaning and History
"OCAMPO EFFECTIVELY USES...THE ART OF STORYTELLING TO SCHOOL HIS AUDIENCE ABOUT SCRUTINIZING PUBLIC MEMORY AS A RESPONSIBILITY OF INFORMED CITIZENSHIP...OCOMAP CITES A WIDE RANGE OF PRIMARY SOURCES TO SHOW HIS READERS TO TO INTERROGATE THE PAST AND TO FAMILIARIZE THEM WITH THE PROBLEMS OF PERIODIZATION, INTERPRETATION ANUSE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEXTS AND ARTIFACTS." -SAYURI SHIMIZU IN THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY "EXTRAORDINARILY POPULAR AND INFLUENTIAL, WIDELY READ AND APPRECIATED, OCAMPO HAS DONE MORE THAN ANY SINGLE AUTHOR IN RECENT YEARS TO INSPIRE INTEREST IN AND EBNTHRUSIASM FOR PHILIPPINE HISTORY AMONG A BROAD FILIPINO AUDIENCE..OCAMPO FREQUENTLY CALLS ATTENTION TO THE POLITICAL USES TO WHICH PHILIPPINE HISTORY HAS BEEN SUBJECTED , EVEN AS HE CHIPS AWAY AT THE FOSSILIZING EFFCTS OF AN OFFICIAL NATIONALISM THAT HAS DOMESTICATE THE MEMORY OF NATIONAL HEROES." -- EVA LOTT-HEDMAN AND JOHN T. SIDEL IN PHILIPPINE POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: COLONIAL LEGACIES, POST COLONIAL TRAJECTORIES