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Web Links African Americans in the Anti-Imperialist Movement America, Russia, and the Meeting of Frontiers America's Wars - The Spanish-American War Anti-Imerialism in the United States: 1898-1935 (Boondocksnet.com) Benjamin Harrison (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Benjamin Harrison (2) - POTUS site "The Birth of U. S. Imperialism" - article by Christopher Conway The Boxer Rebellion The Canal That Almost Wasn't (History House) Cartoons of the Early 1900s Chester A. Arthur (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Chester A. Arthur (2) - POTUS site Crucible of Empire--The Spanish-American War (PBS) Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy (1898-1914) The Great White Fleet: "Big Stick" Diplomacy Afloat Grover Cleveland (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Grover Cleveland (2) - POTUS site Hawaii's Last Queen (The American Experience PBS series) Ida Saxton McKinley Images of the Spanish-American War Make the Dirt FLY! - The Building of the Panama Canal (Smithsonian Institute) "Manifest Destiny: The Old v. The New" - chart Map-->"The Spanish-American War" "New Manifest Destiny--American Imperialism" - slideshow presentation (57 slides) The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals The Papers of Theodore Roosevelt (Avalon Project) Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age- Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Perspectives (LOC) "Remember the Maine!" (Smithsonian Magazine) The Sensational Role of Yellow Journalism The Spanish-American War Centennial Page Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures "The Spanish-American War in US Media Culture" - essay by James Castonguay in American Quarterly Theodore Roosevelt (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Theodore Roosevelt (2) - POTUS site "'The White Man's Burden' and Its Critics" - by Jim Zwick Things to do in Panama when you Have Yellow Fever (History House) Westward by Sea- A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890 (LOC) William Howard Taft (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency William Howard Taft (2) - POTUS site William McKinley (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency William McKinley (2) - POTUS site Woodrow Wilson (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Woodrow Wilson (2) - POTUS site The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War (LOC) Primary Source Documents 1829: Treaty between the United States and Hawaii (12/26) 1833: Traveler John Ball Visits Hawaii in 1833 1849: U. 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Treaty with the Hawaiian Islands (12/20) 1854: Commodore Matthew Perry: When We Landed in Japan 1854: Treaty of Kanagawa 1854: President Fillmore's Letter to the Emperor of Japan 1858: The Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between the United States and Japan (The Harris Treaty) 1858: Treaty of Tien-Tsin (6/18/1858) 1867: Seward's Alaska Treaty with Russia 1868: Burlingame-Seward Treaty 1875: Treaty of Reciprocity between the United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom (5/31) 1876-1920: Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart 1884: Hawai'i-United States Convention (12/6) 1885: "The independence of Hawaii" - editorial article from the Pacific Commercial advertiser (7/28) 1885: Our Country - Josiah Strong 1887: Constitution Kingdom of Hawaii of 1887 (7/6) 1890: "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" - Alfred Thayer Mahan in the Oct. issue of Atlantic Monthly 1890: "The United States Looking Outward" - Alfred Thayer Mahan in the Dec. issue of Atlantic Monthly 1891: "On Anglo-Saxon Predominance" - Josiah Strong 1892: Speech by President Grover Cleveland on Hawaii (12/18) 1893: President Cleveland's Message on Hawaiian Sovereignty (12/18) 1893: World's Parliament of Religions" - Rev. J. H. Barrows - Christianity in Asia 1895: "On American Jurisdiction in the Western Hemisphere" - Richard Olney 1896: "America's Interest in Eastern Asia" - John Barrett, North American Review (March) 1896: "American Interests in the Cuban Revolution" - Grover Cleveland 1897: Breckenridge Amendment 1897: "Chinese Slavery in America" - Charles Frederick Holder, North American Review (Sept.) 1898-1900: Various Documents on the Debate over the Philippines 1898: "The Acquisition of the Philippines" - President McKinley 1898: "The Aims of Zionism" - Richard Gottheil in a speech given in NYC 1898: "America's Interests in China" - General James H. Wilson in The North American Review, vol. 166, issue 495 (Feb.) 1898: American Soldiers in the Philippines Write Home about the War 1898: American Troops in the Phillipines - photo 1898: The Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands 1898: The Battle of Manila Bay - Admiral George Dewey 1898: "The Blowing up of the Maine" - Albert Shaw 1898: New York World Reports Sinking of USS Maine 1898: "Chinese Exclusion" - Robert Green Ingersoll 1898: "Civilization Begins at Home" - political cartoon 1898: Congressional Medal of Honor winner Frank Anders describes a skirmish during the Philippine Insurrection (sound file) 1898: Date With Destiny - The N. G. Gonzales Diary 1898: DeLôme Letter 1898: "Dewey Smashes Spain's Fleet!" - The World's front page (5/2) 1898: "First Speech Against Imperialism" - William Jennings Bryan, Extract from speech delivered at Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, Neb. (6/14) 1898: Hearst’s Journal Blames Spain 1898: "Jefferson Versus Imperialism" - William Jennings Bryan, New York Journal (12/25) 1898: "The March of the Flag" - Albert Beveridge (9/16) 1898: “A Message to García” - Elbert Hubbard’s Paean to Perseverance 1898: The New York World reports the battleship Maine explosion 1898: "Our Future on the Pacific - What We Have There to Hold and Win" - G. W. Commodore Melville in The North American Review, vol. 166, issue 496 (Mar.) 1898: "Pruebas de cariño" [Signs of Friendship]. El Cardo [The Thistle], Madrid - caricature (2/4) 1898: Recognition of the Independence of Cuba 1898: "Save Me From My Friends!" - political cartoon from Puck (9/7) 1898: "Seward's Ideas of Territorial Expansion" - Frederic Bancroft in The North American Review, vol. 167, issue 500 (July) 1898: "The Star in the East" - drawing for cartoon published in The World (April) 1898: A Times Editorial on the Maine Tragedy (2/17) (another page) 1898: "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" - Mark Twain 1898: Treaty of Paris, 1898 1898: "The War With Spain and After" - Walter Hines (Atlantic Monthly, June) 1898: "We'll Stand By the Flag" - sheet music cover 1898-1900: Various documents on the debate over the Philippines 1899: "Aguinaldo's Case Against the United States," The North American Review, vol. 169, issue 514 (September) 1899: “The Black Man’s Burden” - A Response to Kipling 1899: "The Break-up of China and our Interest in It," The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 84, issue 502 (August) 1899: The British Reply to the Open Door Note (11/30) 1899: Carl Schurz against American Imperialism 1899: "Charity Begins at Home" - poem by X-Ray, The Colored American (3/18) 1899: "Democracy or Militarism - speech by Jane Addams at the Chicago Liberty Meeting (4/30) 1899: "The Filipinos are Right" - Susan Look Avery, The Woman's Journal 30 (3/18) 1899: First Open Door Note (Sept.) 1899: "Home Burdens of Uncle Sam" - poem by Anne Manning Comfort (a parody of Kipling's poem) 1899: "Imperialism" - political cartoon from The Verdict July 24, 1899 by C. Gordon Moffat 1899: "Incapable of Colonization" - Henry B. Blackwell, The Woman's Journal 30 (4/1) 1899: "A Letter from the Filipino Junta" - Galicano Apacible, The Public 2 (6/10) 1899: “Liberty Halts American Butchery in the Phillipines" - political cartoon 1899: "Lightening the White Man's Burden" - advertisement by Pear's Soap in McClure's Magazine (Oct.) 1899: The Open Door Note submitted by U.S. Secretary of State, John Hay (8/6) 1899: "The "Open Door" Policy in the Philippines" - Frank D. Pavey in The North American Review, vol. 169, issue 516 (November) 1899: “A Perfect Hailstorm of Bullets”- A Black Sergeant Remembers the Battle of San Juan Hill 1899: "The Philippine Tangle" - William James in the Boston Evening Transcript (3/1) 1899: Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League 1899: “The Poor Man’s Burden”- Labor Lampoons Kipling 1899: A Puerto Rican Farmer Laments U.S. Control of the Island 1899: The Russian Reply to the Open Door Note (12/18) 1899: "The Shame of Imperialism" - Frances E. Russell, The Woman's Journal 30 (3/18) 1899: Teddy Roosevelt Political Cartoons 1899?: The War Prayer - Mark Twain 1899: "What Next?" By William Jennings Bryan, New York Journal (2/12) 1899: "The White Man's Burden" - poem by Rudyard Kipling 1899: "The White Man's Burden" - political cartoon in The Detroit Journal (2/18) 1899-91: Diary Entries of George Percival Schriven - war in the Philippines 1900: "Aguinaldo's Version of the Philippine Troubles," Literary Digest 20 (2/3) 1900: An American Imperialist Vision of Asia" - speech by Senator Alfred J. Beveridge (IN) 1900: "America's Share in a Partition of China" - Demetrius C. Boulger, North American Review (Aug.) 1900: "America's Treatment of the Chinese" - Charles F. Holder, North American Review (Aug.) 1900: "The American Policy in China" - Charles W. Dilke The North American Review, vol. 170, issue 522 (May) 1900: Anti-Imperialist Homecoming - Mark Twain (10/6 & 15) 1900: "Did Senator Hoar Cause the Philippine Rebellion?" Literary Digest 20 (1/27) 1900: "The effect of imperialism upon the negro race. Ably set out by a colored man. (Written by Kelly Miller, professor of mathematics in Howard University, Washington, DC for the Springfield Republican. Boston, Mass. Published by the N. E. Anti-Imperialist League" - broadside 1900: "The Filipino's Vain Hope of Independence" - Marrion WIlcox The North American Review, vol. 171, issue 526 (Sept.) 1900: "The Growth of Our Foreign Policy" - Richard Olney (March) 1900: "Imperialism: America's Historic Policy" - W. A. Peffer The North American Review, vol. 171, issue 525 (Aug.) 1900: "A Moral Eclipse," By Elwood S. Corser, The Public 3 (12/29) 1900: "Our Chinese policy. What we should forfeit in declaring war. 'Most favored nation' treaties to be preserved at all costs - Horace N. Fisher - leaflet 1900: Speech by William Jennings Bryan to the Democratic National Convention, "The Paralyzing Influence of Imperialism 1900: "War as a Moral Medicine" - Goldwin Smith The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 86, issue 518 (Dec.) 1901: "The American Flag" - Mark Twain 1901: "Democracy and Efficiency" - Woodrow Wilson The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 87, issue 521 (Mar.) 1901: "To the American People," By the American Anti-Imperialist League (7/4) 1901: "To The Person Sitting in Darkness" - Mark Twain 1902: Crosby on Kipling - A Parody of “The White Man’s Burden” 1903: "Anti-Imperialism Cost Lives: How Anti-Imperialism Cost the Lives of American Soldiers," Chapter 9 of Fred C. Chamberlain, The Blow from Behind: A Defence of the Flag in the Philippines (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1903) 1903: "Exit Anti-Imperialism," The Independent 55 (9/24) 1903: Platt Amendment 1904: Convention Between the United States and the Republic of Panama 1904: "I rather like that imported affair" - political cartoon by Grant Hamilton from Puck (9/21) 1904: "The Panama Affair of 1903: Roosevelt--Hay Diplomacy," Open Letter to John Hay, By D. H. Chamberlain (From the New York Times (10/2) 1904: "The Philippine Conquest" - Edgar Lee Masters From The New Star Chamber and Other Essays (Chicago: Hammersmark Publishing Co., 1904) 1904: "The Religious Argument" - William Jennings Bryan, The Commoner (12/30) 1904: The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine - Theodore Roosevelt’s Annual Message to Congress 1905: "Filipino Opinion of Reconcentration," El Renacimiento (6/30) 1905: Taft-Katsura Agreement 1905: Treaty of Portsmouth 1906: "The White Man's Burden" - William Jennings Bryan - Address at the Independence Day Banquet of the American Society of London (7/4) 1908: Gentlemen's Agreement 1919: Payne-Aldrich Act 1909: "The Threat of Japan" - Theodore Roosevelt 1911: "The Filipinos as 'Servants and Neighbors,'" El Ideal (6/10) 1911: "Patriotism--A Menace to Liberty" - Emma Goldman 1911: "Philippine Independence and Territorial Integrity," El Ideal (1/14) 1911: Rickover Clears Spain of the Maine Explosion 1912: "Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine" - Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. 1912: "Dollar Diplomacy" - President Taft 1913: "The Democrats and the Anti-Imperialists," The Filipino People 1 (July) 1913: "Repudiation of 'Dollar Diplomacy'" - Woodrow Wilson in the American Journal of International Law, Vol. VII 1914: Bandits or Patriots -- Documents from Charlemagne Péralte 1914: John Reed’s “What About Mexico” - The United States and the Mexican Revolution 1914?: "What the United States Has Fought For" - political cartoon on immigration 1914: Woodrow Wilson's Speech to Congress Regarding Mexico (The Tampico Affair) 1915: “A Danger for All Latin American Countries,” Letters from Venustiano Carranza 1915: "There is hard sledding ahead for the missionaries" - political cartoon in the Columbus Dispatch 1916: “Avoid the Use of the Word Intervention” - Wilson and Lansing on the U.S. Invasion of Mexico 1919-20: “The People Were Very Peaceable” - The U.S. Senate Investigates the Haitian Occupation 1920: "Self-Determining Haiti" - report by James Weldon Johnson in The Nation (8/28) 1920: “The Truth about Haiti - An NAACP Investigation” 1921: "Hearing the Truth About Haiti," By Helena Hill Weed, The Nation 113 (11/9) 1921: "Pan-Americanism," By Scott Nearing, Chapter 15 of The American Empire (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1921) 1922: "Haiti under American Occupation" - Ernest H. Gruening, The Century 103 (April) 1925?: American Imperialism: The Menace of the Greatest Capitalist World Power By Jay Lovestone (Chicago: Workers Party of America, n.d. [1925]) 1926: “Conclusions and Recommendations by the Committee of Six Disinterested Americans" - Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) 1927: "Imperialism Is Easy" - John Dewey in The New Republic 50 (3/23) Hundreds of Documents (many non-repetitive) from 1400 to Present
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"Manifest Destiny: The Old v. The New" - chart
Primary Source Documents
1904: The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine - Theodore Roosevelt’s Annual Message to Congress
1905: "Filipino Opinion of Reconcentration," El Renacimiento (6/30)
1905: Taft-Katsura Agreement
1905: Treaty of Portsmouth
1906: "The White Man's Burden" - William Jennings Bryan - Address at the Independence Day Banquet of the American Society of London (7/4)
Hundreds of Documents (many non-repetitive) from 1400 to Present
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