The US established an imperial presence in East Asia as early as 1844, when the Treaty of Wanghia gave it the same privileged access to Chinese ports as the British Empire, and went on to acquire dozens of “guano islands” in the Pacific, where abundant bird droppings provided a rich source of..…

The event brings members of Ohio State's Asian, Pacific Islander and Desi American communities together as part of APIDA heritage month.. ..…

Army Signal Corps via AP 1903: The U.S. engineers Panamanian independence from Colombia and gains sovereign rights over the zone where the Panama Canal would connect Atlantic and Pacific shipping routes. . 1903: After the Spanish-American War, Cuba and the U.S. sign a “treaty” allowing..…

around the turn of the century, American capitalists and cadre of jingoistic politicians, determined to make Pacific Ocean American lake. Native Hawaiians and other Pacific islanders suffered accordingly.  Spain bore the brunt again, losing Philippines to Uncle Sam  ..…