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Ex-NHCP chairperson Samuel Tan dies at 88

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Photo from National Historical Commission of the Philippines" Facebook="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/life/01/07/samuel-tan.jpg"/><figcaption><em>Photo from National Historical Commission of the Philippines&#x27; Facebook page</em></figcaption></figure></div><p><br/>MANILA -- Former chairperson and executive director of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) Samuel Tan passed away on Thursday, the government agency announced. He was 88.</p><p>The NHCP released a statement Friday to express its condolences to the family and colleagues of Tan, who served as the chief of National Historical Institute, former name of NHCP, from 1997 to 1999. </p><p>Under his leadership, Tan “enriched the curatorial content of the Museum of Philippine History” which was opened in 1995 at the ground floor of the NHI Building in Ermita, Manila.</p><p>This has evolved and moved into NHCP’s Museo ng Kasaysayang Pampulitika ng Pilipinas in Casa Real Shrine, Malolos, Bulacan.</p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/nhcp1933/posts/291894476316069" data-width="auto"> </div><p>Tan, who was born in Siasi, Sulu in 1933, was also the first Tausug-Sama of Chinese-Filipino descent to head the agency, according to the statement.</p><p>He is also known to be an advocate of “a multicultural Philippine history and the appraisal of the marginalized in the national history discourse.”</p><p>Tan also backed many local history conferences and publications conducted throughout the country by the Philippine National Historical Society and the Philippine Historical Association in 1998. </p><p>Aside from serving the NHCP, he also acted as the commissioner of the National Centennial Commission and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).</p><p>Before serving the institute, Tan was the chairperson of the University of the Philippines Department of History where he was also a faculty member. </p><p>He also published several books including “A History of the Philippines (1987/1997)”; “Decolonization and Filipino Muslim Identity (1989)”; “The Critical Decade, 1921-1930 (1993)”; and “The Filipino-American War, 1899-1913 (2002).”<br/> </p>

Former chairperson and executive director of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) Samuel Tan passed away on Thursday.