Philippine History in Stories by Conrado Benitez (Ginn and Company, 1928) is a textbook that brought Philippine history into the primary school curriculum for the first time, with illustrations by Pablo Amorsolo, younger brother of national artist Fernando Amorsolo. Written by one of the drafters of the 1935 Constitution and structured as independent stories rather than biographies, it is both a pedagogical artifact and a record of how a Filipino intellectual in the American colonial period chose to narrate his own country’s past to its children.