An Annotated List of the Most Valuable Online Resources on the United States Becomes the World Power

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• 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://spanam.simplenet.com
  The site contains Spanish American War Chronology, Action Reports and First Hand Accounts, information about the 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/kipling/index.html|
  Analyses of Rudyard Kipling’s essay.

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