Book

How to Hide an Empire

A History of the Greater United States

Daniel Immerwahr

2019

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Q&A

What the History of American Expansion Can Tell Us About Trump’s Threats

A historian of U.S. empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William McKinley.

by Daniel Immerwahr, Tim Murphy via Mother Jones on January 15, 2025
Book Excerpt

Pearl Harbor Was Not the Worst Thing to Happen to the U.S. on December 7, 1941

On the erasure of American "territories" from US history.

by Daniel Immerwahr via Literary Hub on February 20, 2019
Book Review

How the United States Reinvented Empire

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on February 12, 2019
Q&A

Telling the History of the U.S. Through Its Territories

“How to Hide an Empire,” explores America far beyond the borders of the Lower 48.

by Daniel Immerwahr, Anna Diamond via Smithsonian on January 1, 2019

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