Paul A. Kramer

The line from America’s earliest empire in the Philippines to Japan, Korea, Vietnam—and anti-Asian violence at home—is straight, clear, and written in blood.

The "new history of capitalism" cuts class politics at the expense of history.

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.

At the time, ideas of race in America were quite literally black and white. But a few meters of cloth changed the way some people of color were treated.