United States Imperialism

Books     Databases    Internet Sites

Click on on Webcollection Plus to search catalog.
 Browse the shelves for U.S. foreign policy  -  327.73

Databases  - these are suggested databases, but other databases sources are found on the IMC home page, databases by topic, social studies
History Resource Center:  World andUS  
Discovering Collection 
Search terms:  "spanish american war"     united states and imperialism   philippine insurrections Hawaii annexation  mexico war

SIRS Decades
Click on 1900 then click on American interests abroad  -  top of page provides an overview of the topic while bottom of page gives primary documents (items from the times - can be newspaper or magazines articles, editorials, cartoons, photos, journals, letters, or government documents

US at War
Provides information on all wars in which the US was involved.  Click on link for all wars then Spanish American War.

Biographical Information   - there are many biography databases listed on the database topic page
 Biography Resource Center

Web Sites

• The United States and Its Territories 1870 -1925 - primary sources from the University of Michigan; "the full text of monographs and government documents published in the United States, Spain, and the Philippines between 1870 and 1925. The primary focus of the material is the Spanish-American war."
• The Spanish American War Centennial Web - this site has chronology, journals, casualty reports, home front, journalist reports, war fronts
• The World of the Spanish American War - from the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress; - scroll down for information on Spain, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Cuba
• Effects of the Press on Spanish-American Relations - 1898
• The Spanish American War - this PBSsite includes news accounts, photos and a chronology of events; scroll down for links to the war in the Philippines and U.S. colonialism

• Expansion in the Pacific - U.S. imperialism in Hawaii

• The Great White Fleet - "This site presents an account of the 1908 cruise around the world completed by the Great White fleet. Changing the way other nations viewed the United States."

• Albert J. Beveridge and the Philippine War

• Alberg J. Beveridge and the Mark of the Flag Speech
• The Boxer Rebellion and Spheres of Influence
• China Relief Expedition - from the Department of the Navy

• War and Conflicts of the U.S. Navy - scroll down for links to U.S. imperialism in the Pacific, Mexico, Panama and the Philippines

• The Age of Imperialism - from Online History of the United States - includes photographs, political cartoons, primary sources, maps, chronologies and information on U.S. colonialism - this is an excellent site that thoroughly covers the topic
• The Richest Man in the World - Andrew Carnegie from the PBS broadcast

   

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