First Post!

 This being my first blog post for my new blog I will lay out what exactly this blog is going to be about. 

As the title suggests is going to be a blog that will explore the American Empire and its many facets, past and present.  In essence, this blog is going to be an extension of my Ph.D. research on the Philippine-American War.  Besides, discussing my research on the Philippine War I will also touch on European imperialism, history in general (particularly military history), politics, as well as other lighter subjects on occasion.  I will also write reviews on various history books that I read whether they deal with the Philippine War or not.  

The above in a nutshell is what I am going to do with this blog and I hope you will find it very interesting.  I plan to post an entry every other week (hopefully every week), but I shall put up or at least one post a month, with posts going up towards the end of the week.  Following this post, the first two posts to make will be discussing what is an empire and whether the United States is now or ever was an empire.

That is essentially my plan to begin this blog.  I know this is a short post, but the ones that follow this will be a little bit longer, I promise you, and I hope that you will find them and this blog both interesting and informative.  If you have any suggestions for blog posts or would like me to answer any questions that you may have about history or the American Empire please do not hesitate to leave a message or question, I will be more than happy to answer them in the comments section or as a separate post.  Thank you in advance for checking out my blog.