Has America Become the Empire it Once Fought?

Sources & Additional Reading:

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
‘Treaty of Peace Between the United States and Spain’ Yale Law School
‘The Philippine-American War’ Office of the Historian
‘A Masterpiece of Counterguerrilla Warfare’ Combat Studies Institute
‘The Torture Debate Is Missing This: The Fact that We Did This Before’ Time Magazine
‘THE PHILIPPINE SITUATION’ Washington: Government Printing Press
‘Executive Order: 132’ The American Presidency Project
‘PHILIPPINE AUTONOMY ACT OF 1916’ The LawPhil Project
‘United States Territories 2026’ World Population Review
‘PUBLIC LAW 103-150—NOV. 23, 1993’ GovInfo
‘Kūʻē Petitions Anti-Annexation’ University of Hawai’i at Manoa
‘Annual Homeless Persons Point-In-Time Count (PIT) Report’ State of Hawai’i Department of Human Services
‘Myths and Maidens’ The Coconut TV
‘Study: Maui Should Be Cautious In Phasing Out Vacation Rentals’ Honolulu Civil Beat
‘Lovely Hula Lands’ by Huanani-Kay Trask
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism by Noenoe K. Silva
‘IDEOLOGY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AFTER AD 1778’ James M. Bayman
‘Decolonizing Travel in Hawai'i’ The End of Tourism Podcast
‘Quick Facts: Puerto Rico’ US Census Bureau
‘Frequently Asked Questions about PROMESA’ Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
‘Puerto Rico's Public School Closures’ Othering & Belonging Institute
‘Puerto Rico Needs and Should Have Full and Equitable Access to All Federal Economic and Health Security Programs’ Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
‘Protests Greet Puerto Rico Control Board’ The American Prospect
‘The Water Cure’ The New Yorker
‘War-Related Deaths in the Philippines, 1898-1902’ University of California Press
‘Advancing Equity in U.S. Territories’ House Natural Resources Committee
‘U.S. Territories: Coordinated Federal Approach Needed to Better Address Data Gaps’ US Government Accountability Office
‘Aguinaldo’s Case Against the United States, by a Filipino’ North American Review
‘New York Tribute: April 9, 1902’ Library of Congress

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