Books
Thomas G. Paterson, ed., Major Problems in American
and Foreign Policy
Documents and essays chronicle the history and analyze
the major controversies in American foreign affairs.
Films
The Spanish American War in Motion Pictures
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/
This Library of Congress website contains 68 motion pictures
produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American
War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The films
show troops, ships, notable figures, and parades, as well
as reenactments of battles and other war-time events.
Brief essays provide historical context.
Web Sites
Recommended Web Sites:
The World of 1898: The Spanish American War
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/intro.html
This Library of Congress site includes valuable information
on the history of Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
A War in Perspective: 1898-1998
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/epo/spanexhib/page_2.html
This site examines the place of the Spanish American
war in public memory.
Related Web Sites:
American Imperialism
http://www.boondocksnet.com/
An extensive site about American imperialism and anti-imperialism
at the turn of the century that includes essays, political
cartoons, maps, photographs, and primary source documents.
The Philippine-American War
http://www.boondocksnet.com/centennial/
This site contains includes historical texts, essays,
photographs, political cartoons, and other illustrations
documenting the Philippine Revolution, the Spanish-American
War and the Philippine-American War.
Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth
and Early Twentieth Century Perspectives
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/prhtml/prhome.html
This site portrays the early history of the commonwealth
of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political
writings, and histories drawn from the Library of Congress's
collections. It highlights the land and its resources,
relations with Spain, the competition among political
parties, reform efforts, and recollections by veterans
of the Spanish-American War. Most materials in this collection
are in Spanish.
The Spanish-American War Centennial Website
http://www.spanamwar.com
This site contains Spanish American War Chronology, Action
Reports and First Hand Accounts, information about the
US Navy and the Spanish Navy, Weapons Profiles, Personal
Profiles, Unit Profiles, Rosters & Photos, information
about War in Cuba, War in the Philippines, War in Puerto
Rico, The War in Hawaii and Guam, Medicine in the War,
The Home Front, Journalism and the War, and Music of the
War.
The White Man's Burden and Its Critics
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/kipling/index.html
Analyses of Rudyard Kipling's poem.
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