The US imperialist wars in the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan grew from US wars against Indigenous people in the 19th century.

Karl Jacoby
Karl Jacoby is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University. He is the author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History (Penguin, 2008) and The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire (Norton, 2016), among other works.