Chanel Cleeton’s novel The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba appeared in 2021. It’s the first book by Cleeton that I’ve read, so I was hoping to find a new author to follow. The title and cover of The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba are a little misleading, however. The cover features a woman in a […]
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Who Was Bartolome de las Casas and Why Does He Matter?
Asking who was Bartolome de las Casas would be an easy question for an educated person in Spain. Here in the US, however, people are much less likely to know who de las Casas was. But they should. Bartolome de las Casas is a famous and important historical figure. He features prominently in the history […]
American Concentration Camps in the Philippines – The Brutal History
This post is not, as you might expect, about Americans in World War 2. Although that war did indeed feature concentration camps in the Philippines for captured Americans. Run by the Japanese, they were brutal places. They are also worth learning about. Instead, though, today I mean to describe the American concentration camps in the […]
The Values of Manifest Destiny, Part 2
In my last post, (click here to read) I laid out the values of Manifest Destiny. Hopefully, I made the case that it was among the most influential doctrines put forward in US history. Today, I’d like to show how the values of Manifest Destiny interacted with some other events in American history. I’ve already […]