Dan’s research and book list:
Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America As a Great Power
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Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America’s Imperial Dream
The War With Spain in 1898
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power
What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy
The Spanish War: An American Epic 1898
The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography
Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903
The Spanish-American War and President McKinley
Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz
Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century
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Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders/An Autobiography (Library of America)
An Unwanted War: The Diplomacy of the United States and Spain Over Cuba, 1895-1898
Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies
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Spanish American War, 1898
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The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (Modern War Studies)
1898: The Birth of the American Century
War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
Theodore Rex
The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
ghawkinsm –
Immaculate storytelling and a gripping account of a period that often flies under the radar in academia.
Geoffrey –
This episode so perfectly captured the mood and aura of the time period that I quite literally could feel the emotions of the people involved. This is an important story for anyone interested in how the modern United States began the course leading to its current place in the world. When I was in school the Spanish-American War and associated conflicts were even less than glossed over. In just over 4 hours I was finally given the education on the subject my regular education failed to give.