1870 Special Message Regarding the Annexation of Santo Domingo
Many teachers place the beginning of imperialism in the 1890s - this shows it was alive and well (and maybe connected with Manifest Destiny) in the 1870s
12: Imperialism/World War I
AN EXAMINATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION DURING WORLD WAR I AND APPLICATION TO THE CURRENT STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN OF THE US GOV.pdf
Neighborhood Narcs: The Story of the American Protective League | The Saturday Evening Post
No textbook would have a section on World War I like like this - which is precisely why teachers should use it. This is an easy way to set students up for a lesson on the intolerance that swept the American public during World War I. First students read the essay, identify a thesis and itemize the evidence. Then, they go off and fact check the evidence.
Welcome to The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War I
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany (1917)
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson delivered this address to a joint session of Congress and called for a declaration of war against Germany. The resulting congressional vote brought the United States into World War I.
"The March of the Psychos": Measuring Intelligence in the Army
In this lighthearted, anonymous commentary, from the April 1918 issue of the army post newspaper Camplife Chickamauga, a would-be poet mocked psychologists with gentle humor.
The War and the Intellectuals: Article by Randolph Bourne -
1917 article against the war
Debs, Statement to the Court after being convicted of violating the Sedition Act
Eugene Debs delivered his Statement to the Court after being convicted of violating the Sedition Act. This speech was a plea in his defense for his and other socialists’ freedom of speech
A New Moral Order: Britain at the Start of the Great War | History Today
When Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914 there was no outbreak of jingoism and no immediate rush to enlist. What Anthony Fletcher finds instead, in letters, diaries and newspapers, is a people who had little comprehension of the profound changes to come.
A global guide to the first world war - interactive documentary
Collection of videos written and narrated by historians from around the world organized in a topical, interactive timeline allowing users to take different paths through the site. The quality of the historical footage is remarkable and the information is comprehensive. Teachers can cull this to find classroom or homework material. Alternatively, students can be set free in this to find areas of personal interest.
U.S. Senate: "Free Speech in Wartime"
This description of Senator Robert La Follett's famous October 1917 speech defending the right of free speech in wartime includes a description of a fight in the Senate chamber in the spring of 1917. The fight involved a revolver, a spitoon and a steel file. Its impossible that a teacher can read this and tech through World War I the same again
While Democrats swarmed around the furious senator to prevent him from hurling a brass spittoon at the presiding officer, Oregon senator Harry Lane spotted a pistol under the coat of Kentucky senator Ollie James. Lane quickly decided that if James reached for the weapon, he would remove from his pocket a heavy steel file and plunge its sharp point into James' neck. While La Follette dared anyone to carry him off the floor, the Senate ordered him to take his seat.
Babel Proclamation, May 1918 | State Historical Society of Iowa
Teachers who think it is funny to tell students about Frankfurters being replaced by "Hot Dogs" and Sauerkraut being replaced by "Liberty Cabbage" should look at this law from Iowa to see the reality of xenophobia in the United States in 1918. The Governor of Iowa proclaimed the only English should be spoken in public
A Notorious Photograph From a US Massacre in the Philippines Reveals an Ugly Truth
“No one can read of that valorous fight,” the editorial of one newspaper proclaimed, “without a thrill of pride in the boys of the United States Army, who scaled the almost perpendicular crags and wiped out the incensed heathen from the face of Christendom.” President Theodore Roosevelt personally sent a message to Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, military governor of Mindanao, who had ordered the assault, writing, “I congratulate you and the officers and men of your command upon the brilliant feat of arms wherein you and they so well upheld the honor of the American flag.”
Despite their efforts, the campaign failed to elicit any public outcry. Instead, the photograph was turned into a postcard, much like the ones from Wounded Knee or the Philippine-American War, and the spectacle of the massacre reduced to a colonial commodity.
The distance between the past and the present seems indeed to fade in the staged triumphalism of trophy photos. The fact is that we have seen it all before — at Bud Dajo, in Iraq and Afghanistan or, at this very moment, in Gaza.
At a time when we are inundated with images of suffering, the problem is not that we have looked at too many photos but that we haven’t looked closely enough. If the act of bearing witness is to be more than a cliche, we cannot afford to look away. More importantly, we must also have the courage to recognize what it is that we see.
The Delome Letter
The following letter is the controversial De Lome letter. The Spanish diplomat's letter was critical of U.S. President McKinley and the prospects for peace . It was leaked to the U.S. press, forcing the recall of the highly capable minister.
The Genesis of the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic
The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War Home Page
The Zimmermann Telegram
Tribal Headhunters on Coney Island? Author Revisits Disturbing American Tale
In 1904, the American government spent $1.5 million taking 1,300 Filipinos from a dozen different tribes to the St. Louis Exposition as part of a scheme intended to drum up widespread popular support for America's policies in the Philippines by demonstrating that the people of the islands were far from ready for self-government
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William Thomas Turner - Wikipedia
Save this one for the true or false question that no one could possibly believe. It's hard to believe that the Captain of the Lusitania survived its sinking. It's impossible to believe that he was captain on another ship two years later, and it was sunk by torpedo also - and he again survived
Hawaii-United States Treaty -1849
Hawaii-United States Treaty - 1826
Full text of "Journal of educational psychology" - 1917
Full ext of the 1917 article of Bell and McCollum regarding historical knowledge (cited often by Wineberg) can be found here at archive.org
Crucible of Empire - PBS Online
To understand more about the Spanish-American War and the film, "Crucible of Empire", this site offers a timeline of the major events before, during, and after the war; original 1890s sheet music popular during the War; photographs of the major figures involved; newspaper articles and headlines from 1890s newspapers; classroom activities for teachers and students; historical resources, including recent scholarship concerning the war, bibliographies, and links to other web sites; and a quiz designed to test visitor knowledge about the war and this colorful moment in American history.
Commodore Matthew Perry: When We Landed in Japan, 1854
American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
American Leaders Speak: World War I
Excerpts from Pershing, Gompers and Gerard
1917: War Is "a Blessing, Not a Curse": The Case for Why We Must Fight
Shortly before President Woodrow Wilson’s call for war on April 2, 1917, the editors of a conservative magazine, the North American Review, laid out the basic arguments for U.S. participation.
Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
This telegram, written by German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann, is a coded message sent to Mexico, proposing a military alliance against the United States. The obvious threats to the United States contained in the telegram inflamed American public opinion against Germany and helped convince Congress to declare war against Germany in 1917.
A Splendid Little War
Report of Minnesota Commission of Public Safety : Minnesota Commission of Public Safety : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive