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 ...

In this interview, journalist and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines ... of almost 50 years of American rule. Teachers came over from 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 ...