War and belated remembrance
We don’t get to read, see, or hear much about the Philippine-American War, which is still referred to in many books as “the Philippine insurrection”.
Now there’s an exhibition at the National Museum called War and Dissent.
A John Sayles movie on the Philippine-American War is in pre-production. The film stars Academy Award winner Chris Cooper and will be shot in Bohol early next year. Sayles’ novel of the Philippine-American War will be out in 2010.
Fully Booked branches are flooded with copies of Stanley Karnow’s book In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines.
Why the sudden uptick of interest in the Philippine-American War? Have they just realized that on the issue of the American presence in Iraq and Afghanistan we’ve been there, been that?
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