EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Pennee Bender
and Yvonne Lassalle

SPECIAL INTERVIEW

Pepón Osorio Riffs on Colonialism, Postcoloniality, and Puerto Rican Survival
Conducted by Marvette Perez and Yvonne Lassalle

FEATURE ARTICLES

Cuba, 1898: Rethinking Race, Nation, and Empire
Ada Ferrer

"Higher Womanhood" Among the "Lower Races": Julia McNair Henry in Puerto Rico and the "Burdens" of 1898
Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles

Making Concessions: Race and Empire Revisited at the Philippine Exposition, St. Louis, 1901-1905
Paul Kramer

PUBLIC HISTORY

Imperial Amnesia: Teddy Roosevelt, the Philippines, and the Modern Art of Forgetting
Matthew Frye Jacobson

TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY

Around 1898: Introduction
Ian Christopher Fletcher

1898 and the Nature of the New Empire
Oscar V. Campomanes

Rethinking the United States in "Paradise": A Course for Teachers, July 20-31 1998
Lynette Cruz

It's All Spoken Here: Introduction to the History of Latina/os in the United States
Nancy Raquel Mirabal

Myths, Music, and Multimedia in Teaching Modern Mexican History
Andrew Grant Wood

THE PAST IN PRINT

When Women Get Together: Black Women, Working Women, and History

Review of: Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina; Tera W. Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom': Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War; and Maria Odila Silva Dias, Power and Everyday Life: The Lives of Working Women

Molly Mitchell

Structure vs. Experience? Recent Contributions to Latin American Labor Historiography

Review of: Walton Look Lai, Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: The Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918; Aviva Chomsky, West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940; William French, A Peaceful and Working People: Manners, Morals and Class Formation in Northern Mexico; and James Brennan, The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City.

Maria Cecilia Cangiano

Public Art and Civic Culture

Review of: Erika Doss, Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities; and Jonathan Harris, Federal Art and National Culture: The Politics of Identity in New Deal America.

Casey Blake

Bobbins, Pins, and Runways: The Needle Trades and the Remaking of Working-Class History

Review of: Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914; Wendy Gamber, The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930; and Nancy L. Green, Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York.

Daniel E. Bender

THE ABUSABLE PAST
R.J. Lambrose

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