When the Philippine Islands fell into the lap of the U.S

When the Philippine Islands fell into the lap of the U.S. in 1898, at the end of the Spanish-American War President William McKinley admitted that when he first heard of the islands he could not locate them on a globe.
A relative of colonial administrator, Dean C. Worcester asked, "is that the place where St. Paul wrote a letter from?"
This map from the early 1900s in the University of Michigan Hatcher Library Special Collections shows, graphically, the size of Luzon in relation to Oh...