the United States stood poised to enter the 20th century as an imperial power. Troops on the march, Spanish American War. Artist Glackens, William J., 1870-1938. Library of Congress Congress ...

Meanwhile, troops stationed away from the fighting also faced danger. When the Spanish-American War was declared, thousands of U.S. volunteers entered training camps in the southeastern 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 ... in ...