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First academic review is in…

See Stefan Aune, “Labor and Military Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines,” forthcoming in Diplomatic History: https://academic.oup.com/dh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/dh/dhaf047/8184991

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“The Wages of War: Debating Military and Labor History.”

See “The Wages of War: Debating Military and Labor History,” in the September 2025 issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History (Duke University Press), featuring contributions from myself…

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First review is in!

See Gavin O’Toole’s aptly titled review of The Work of Empire, for the Latin American Review of Books: “Toiling for the Invader”… https://latamrob.substack.com/p/toiling-for-the-invader

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Why Trump’s Fascination with McKinley?

President Trump’s adoration of William McKinley’s tariffs and expansionism, expressed in his inauguration speech, and order renaming Denali, in Alaska, is receiving attention from media. See my interview…

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Occupying Empire: A Possible Global History of U.S. Military Government?

If U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq sparked a wave of new scholarship on occupations, this work’s relationship to a parallel new and burgeoning literature on American empire…