The Philippine-American war is often overlooked in US History books, but it was bloody turning point at the edge of the 20th century. The United States military had never traveled so far to invade a country it knew so little about. 

The war itself was brutal for both sides. Americans demolished the Filipino army early, and then local revolutionaries turned to Guerrilla warfare. Professor Paul Kramer joins the show to explain how the years-long war influenced ideas of race and nation. Soldiers, Reporters and civilians adopted harsh views the 'enemy.'  This would have long lasting reverberations; over a hundred years later our languages are still affected by this war.

Paul Kramer writes and teaches U. S. history from transnational, imperial and global perspectives as an associate professor at Vanderbilt University.

He is the author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines, and co-editor of Cornell University Press’ series The United States in the World.  He is currently writing books on the practice of transnational history, and on connections between American foreign relations and U. S. immigration policy across the 20th century.