Resources for teachers
Brands, H. W. Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992. This is a good overview and detailed source for information across a wide range of time periods and from a variety of sources. His bibliography is a great place to find additional sources.
Choy, Catherine Ceniza. Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. This is a good source for information about nursing training programs and the connections between them and Filipino emigration. Mostly in the later 20th century.
Christian Ocampo, Anthony. The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. This book is mostly about the 21st century Filipino identity in the USA, however it provides valuable insights into the way people think about identity and the historical sources of that identity as geographic, cultural, and political.
Einolf, C.J. America in the Philippines 1899-1902: Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2014 This book is easy to read and focuses on the scandalous tourture programs carried out under and sometimes by US military occupiers.
Graff, Henry F. American Imperialism and the Philippine Insurrection (Testimony of the Times: Selections From Congressional Hearings) Little, Brown and Company, 1969 This book contains transcripts and introductions about each of the people interviewed after the Philipine American War.
Immerwahr, Daniel. How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States. London, UK:
Vintage UK, 2020. This is a easily readable overview of the US Territorial Empire. Only a small portion focuses on the Philippines, however the rest provides context for the US perspective.
Karnow, Stanley. In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. New York: Random House, 1989. This book mostly focuses on combat, and military strategy. It makes some comparisons to the Vietnam war in terms of the manner and outcomes of the wars.
Kramer, Paul A. Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, & the Philippines. Harder to read, but a good source because of its detailed analysis of complicated topics. Issues such as the paradox of uplift and civilization of a population thought to be irredeemable are analyzed in detail.
Silbey, David, A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008) An easy to read and accessible narrative of the events of the war, and the US perspective on them.
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