One of the most obscured events in Philippine colonial history occurred on September 23, 1762. On that day, a powerful British naval force landed marines and infantry soldiers in Manila.

Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. History suggests these designs reveal simmering divisions inside the United States.

Walter Benjamin's dictum that every work of art is also a work of barbarism comes to mind with "New World Orders," an exhibition of Spanish colonial casta paintings currently on display at the ...