Uncovering America’s Forgotten Massacre in the Philippines

In March 1906, US troops climbed the volcanic crater of Bud Dajo on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines and killed a thousand Moro men, women, and children who had resisted American colonial authority. The event was celebrated by US officials as a military victory, and photographs of the dead circulated as souvenirs, postcards, and trophies. Today Bud Dajo is almost entirely absent from American historical memory. In his new , , Kim Wagner reconstructs the massacre and the machinery…