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I've been reading up a bit more about the American Empire period of the late 19th and early 20th century, and realize that as an outsider I'm very familiar with how Americans view and think about aspects of your history like slavery, the revolutionary war, the relationship to indigenous people, and the cold war, but that I know very little about how the empire is thought of or portrayed in American history. How empires are viewed in retrospect seems to be a controversial topic in many countries with a history of it, whether coloniser or colonised. How does American history and American people regard the colonization of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philipines, the South Pacific, and the establishment of Liberia?
Americans, generally, don't consider their history imperial, and the suggestion will cause anger.
It is true that the U.S. brutality and killing done to Filipino civilians during the Spanish-American War, constituted Genocide. For details, read the late Howard Zinn's best-seller "A Peoples History of the United States."
Don't read that Stalinist propaganda. Howard Zinn = academic fraud.
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