Volunteering For Empire Bibliography

Memorial Plaque

Articles
Ada Ferrer, “Cuba, 1898: Rethinking Race, Nation, and Empire,” Radical History Review (January 1999).

Christoph Giebel, “Commentary: The Big Lie in Volunteer Park,” Northwest Asian Weekly, May 13, 2021.

Paul Kramer, “Race-Making and Colonial Violence in the U.S. Empire: The Philippine-American War as Race War,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, June 2006.

Scot Ngozi-Brown, “African-American Soldiers and Filipinos: Racial Imperialism, Jim Crow, and Social Relations,”  The Journal of Negro History (Winter 1997).

Books
Pedro Cabán, Constructing a Colonial People: Puerto Rico and the United States, 1898–1932 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999).

Christopoher Cappozola, Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century (New York: Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2020).

Oliver Charbonneau, Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021).

Michael Cullinane, Ilustrado Politics: Filipino Elite Response to American Rule, 1898-1908 (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2003).

Willard Gatewood, “Smoked Yankees” and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers, 1898-1902 (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999).

Julian Go, American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).

Kristin L. Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2000).

 Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel, and Helen Toribio, The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons (San Francisco: Eastwind Books of Berkeley, 2014).

Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (New York: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020).

Moon-Ho Jung, Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022).

Paul Kramer, Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, & The Philippines (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

Brian McAlister Linn, The Philippine American War, 1899-1902 (Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2019).

Alfred McCoy, Policing the Empire: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009).

Stuart Creighton Miller, Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 (New Haven: Yale University Press,1984).

Resil Mojares, The War Against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu, 1899-1906 (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1999).

Solsirée del Moral, Negotiating Empire: The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico, 1898–1952 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013).

Consuelo Naranjo Orovio, Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper, and Luis Miguel García Mora, La Nación Soñada: Cuba, Puerto Rico y Filipinas Ante El 98 : Actas Del Congreso Internacional Celebrado En Aranjuez Del 24 Al 28 de Abril de 1995 (Aranjuez (Madrid): Doce Calles, 1996).

Louis Perez, Jr., The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998).

Fernando Picó, Puerto Rico 1898: The War after the War (Markus Wiener Publishers, 2003).

Robert Rydell, World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).

Mary Talusan, Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black soldiers, and Military Band Music During US Colonization of the Philippines (Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021).

Lanny Thompson, Imperial Archipelago: Representation and Rule in the Insular Territories under U.S. Dominion after 1898 (Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2010).

Mariel Iglesias Utset, A Cultural History of Cuba During the US Occupation, 1898-1902 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011).

Films
Amigo. Directed by John Sayles, Anarchists’ Convention, 2012

This Bloody, Blundering Business. Directed by Peter Davis, Villon Films, 1971.