00000cab a22000004a 4500 IPP-00000643051 IPP 20220708134801.0 220708s2021 xx d | ||r |||||eng|| eng Guiwa, Herald Ian C. Misrecognition and historical forgetting the case of San Mateo, Rizal during the Filipino-American war, 1899-1901 2021 tables; references The present articles is a preliminary study that attempts to explain how the events in San Mateo (then part of the old Manila Province) during the early American colonial period (1899-1901) encouraged among its people the forgetting of the war against American aggression. Forgetting in the context of this research pertains to the act of letting go of the overt resistance and accepting the new colonial order under the American regime. Drawing from Reynaldo C. Ileto's study on the protected zone, this study reiterates the idea that the American regime. Drawing from Reynaldo C. Ileto's study on the protected zone, this study reiterates the idea that the Americans immediately forged forgetting at the onset of their occupation in the town of San Mateo-And this was achieved through contested yet deemed legitimate colonial policies like military surveillance operations to maintain the American brand of peace and order in the protected zone. The discourse will be supported by the theoretical frames laid out by T. Ruanni F. Tupas on the nature of historical forgetting. The perspective this study advances belongs to the realm of local history. American war stories UP Los Baños Journal Vol. XIX, no. 1 (Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2021), 1-19 Article FI