| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899–1999. Ed. by Angel Velasco Shaw and Luis H. Francia. (New York: New York University Press, 2002. xxviii, 468 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 0-8147-9790-3. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-8147-9791-1.)

Once a year, in a hotel ballroom in New York or Washington, a select group of current and former military officers—in recent years it has included Colin Powell—gather to sing songs from forgotten battlefields: "The days we fought in the Islands/From Jolo to old Luzon/ Were the empire days which we long to relive." The Annual Wallow of the secretive Military Order of the Carabao is one of the few regular commemorations of the Philippine-American War in the United States. The Philippine war is honored by fewer courthouse monuments, weekend reenactments, and Hollywood movies than even the briefer, less bloody Spanish-American War in which it is often subsumed. It is this silence that the authors of Vestiges of War seek to redress. This rich collection of essays, poetry, photographs, scripts, art, and essays on art bills itself, somewhat immodestly, as "an obstinate act of recovery" and a "visceral, necessary, and ultimately futuristic challenge to systemic exclusions" from history (p. 437).

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