The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines: By Paul Kramer

The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University
April 10, 2006 Vol. 35 No. 29

Historian Paul Kramer revisits the Philippine-American War

It was Mark Twain who said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Few today remember that the celebrated author was also a vocal critic of a U.S. war of empire a century ago: the invasion of the Philippines.