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Quick background info on Filipino-American war:

SAVAGE ACTS: WAR, FAIRS, AND EMPIRES.  30-minute recap from CUNY’s American Social History Project.

The Library of Congress (loc.gov) has these useful sections—Philippine-American war folders: collections of stereo cards, etc. Spanish-American war films: from Edison Companies (reenactments) and others.

I’ve chosen here three historical enactments of Fil-Am War by Edison Companies at loc.gov:

FILIPINOS RETREAT

CAPTURE OF CANDABA 

KANSAS VOLUNTEERS AT CALOOCAN

Balangiga & the war

ROLANDO BORRINAGA was my main source for Balangiga. An indefatigable scholar on Samar, he wrote several books on the massacre. REY IMPERIAL’s books on the war, Leyte and Samar, and RESIL MOJARES's War Against the Americans, on the revolutionary war in Cebu, were also key.

Alfred McCoy's Policing America's Empire has been an excellent source on the colonial counterinsurgency and surveillance tactics of Americans against Filipinos. McCoy goes a long way to explaining why the Philippine revolution failed; America's policing tactics were brutal, cunning, thorough, and reflects US’s long history of genocide and white supremacist violence.

The free ebook, Affairs in the Philippine Islands, is a great primary source on the beginnings of American policy in the Philippines, the text of Senate hearings that arose from news of the massacres in Samar of men, women, and children by the U.S. Army.

Blog

My blog has some material I posted as I was researching the book.

Here's this list of books on the Philippine-American war.

Here are two American writers on that war no one knows about.

A post on a water-cure scene.

I read the memoir of William Howard Taft’s wife Helen.

My favorite map at the New York Public Library.

Elvis invades The Unintended here and here.

I talked to librarians about writing Insurrecto.

I note a connection to Black History Month and its founder, Cartter G. Woodson, to the early US occupation of the Philippines here.