And that was the kind of fact that I knew in a vague sense, but didn't really fully appreciate the significance of until I arrived in Manila and just looked around and saw, oh, yeah, this place has clearly been part of the United States and has an ongoing relationship, and I'm not sure that the way I'm teaching US history is really getting that. But I think there's a difference between reading the lyrics and hearing the music. But then in the middle of all this, I took a research trip to Manila, in the Philippines.Īnd I have known, of course, because I'm a historian, that the Philippines had been a colony of the United States for about 50 years. And I was doing a normal thing that US historians do: I was teaching the class in the normal way, in the Jacksonian era, we get all the way up to the Civil War, Progressive Era, all that kind of stuff, and just trying not to screw it up. I was working as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, and I was also teaching at a prison, in San Quentin prison. This transcript has been edited for clarity.ĭaniel Immerwahr: I've been teaching US history for a while in California. Please view them as open invitations to dive deeper into each resource and topic explored.
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