Hotly contested stump speeches on transpacific trade, immigration, and national security are not new to American political discourse. Join historian, teacher, and author Jennifer Hallock to learn how our first experiment in overseas empire in the Philippines (1898-1946) launched the American Century and still shapes our country now. She will discuss this chapter of our shared history, and lead a Q&A on the effects we continue to see today. 

Interested in a more high-level analysis? See this article Wallace Army - J. Hollack, written by our speaker! Copies of her books will be available for sale and to be autographed.

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Jennifer Hallock spends her days teaching history and her nights writing historical happily-ever-afters. She has a master’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and has written for and helped edit several academic and global policy publications. She lived and worked in the Philippines, Lebanon, and Thailand, but now she writes at her little brick house on a New England homestead—kept company by her husband, a growing flock of chickens, and a mutt named Wile E.