In the wake of the Civil War, conflict was looked upon as a right of passage, so when the United States became embroiled in the Spanish-American and Philipene-American Wars, young men marched away to fulfill their destiny, as they were told. But, by the time they came back, they were put down and forgotten. This is the story of the 13th Minnesota Regiment and their trials in the Pacific.
Kyle Ward (b. 1969) is the director of the social studies education program at St. Cloud State University. He worked as a high school teacher for many years, teaching a variety of subjects. He is a co-author (with Dana Lindaman) of History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History and the author of History in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years and Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks, all published by The New Press.