As part of our week long series “The Legacy of American Empire,” we look at our former colony, the Philippines. The US gained control after the Spanish American Wat. The Philippines gained ...

In the late 1800s, Jose Rizal founded the Filipino League, which began fighting Spanish colonial rule of the Philippine Islands ... the United States purchased the Philippines for $20 million. As ...

With its victory and subsequent annexation of the Philippines ... of America's "Manifest Destiny" had been arguing that the country should flex its newfound muscles and join the ranks of colonial ...

(photo: Francois Lochon/Getty Images) Today, the name Ferdinand Marcos conjures up images of oppressive rule and of ... in the country. America's bases in the Philippines played a vital role ...

The difference is that Muslim separatists see Spanish and American colonialism in the Muslim Philippines as having been supplanted by colonial rule from Manila under the Philippine republic. The ...

Philippine Independence Day is a monumental occasion commemorating the country's liberation from centuries of colonial ... the Philippines through the Treaty of Paris, ending the Spanish-American ...