What is an empire?
Is the United States an Empire?
Why empire?
Mahan (1890) thought US should
US shipping routes, from ICOADS database.
The official history of the Hawaii annexation.
Sanford Dole
Major US Acquisitions, 1898-1909
Their doctrines, if carried out, would make it incumbent upon us to leave the Apaches of Arizona to work out their own salvation, and to decline to interfere in a single Indian reservation. Their doctrines condemn your forefathers and mine for ever having settled in these United States
And as for a flag for the Philippine Province, it is easily managed. We can have a special one — our states do it: We can have just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull and crossbones.”