United States Archives In The Philippines

Cheryl Beredo chronicles the establishment and growth of the Bureau of Archives, a part of the United States' government in the Philippines from 1898 1921. Exploring its rich, complex, and understudied history within the context of the colonial administration in the islands, Beredo, an archivist by training, asks: "If roads brought economic development of the Philippines, schools molded model citizens, civil service trained skilled laborers, and a bicameral legislature transformed natives into self governable subjects, what did the state archive offer?"
A graduate of Univ. of Pittsburgh and Cornell University, Cheryl Beredo is completing her doctorate in American Studies at the Univ. of Hawaii. Her research interests are American Studies, 20th century Philippine history and archival studies.