Massacre in the Clouds
from The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
In early March 1906, the United States Army and the Filipino Constabulary attacked a insurgent outpost of Moros on the island of Jolo. Over 1,000 men, women, and children were killed in the battle, and less than two dozen Americans lost their lives. It was deemed an atrocity by all observers, even the soldiers that took part. Professor Kim Wagner recalls this violent episode in his latest book. Essential Reading: Kim Wagner, Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History (2024). Recommended Reading: Paul A. Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (2006). Stuart Creighton Miller, Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 (1982). Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000).
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