No empire has ever easily accepted its decline, and neither will the US. It intends to hold onto its status as the unquestionable superpower, and for that, it needs imperial outposts to stand ...

The US ought to have its own Empire Day and it should be on June 15. It was on June 15, 1898 that the US became an empire. On that day, the US House of Representatives voted 209 to 91 to annex Hawaii.

“Territorial empire has mattered for the United States, even if most people on the U.S. mainland are only vaguely aware of its colonial history.” For an empire, the United States hides it well ...

Despite all this, the notion that the United States has been unusually kind-hearted in its treatment of its colonial subjects — Nothing to see here, folks, just school-building and public health ...

“Academics, policymakers, intellectuals, writers and activists in both the United States and its overseas colonies have subjected U.S. colonial empire to study … beginning in 1898 itself.” ...

The Great Atlas of Colonial Empires First colonizations, colonial empires, decolonizations (15th- 21st centuries ... Nourished by the most recent contributions of historiography, this book allows us ...

Tarzan and Captain America may seem like an unlikely pair to offer insights into the colonial empire of the United States, but they appear midway through “American Empire: A Global History ...

Adrian Chen reviews How to Hide an Empire, by Daniel Immerwahr, a history of U.S. imperialism that covers Teddy Roosevelt, the Philippines, and America’s overseas holdings.