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History 1
U.S. Imperialism
January 2015
Click on the button below to hear an interview with the author of "How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.
Start the interview at the 13:30 mark and he will give a basic overview of what you are researching.
THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY
Essays & primary sources on many of the topics
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Description: A woman (Hawai'i) and Uncle Sam are getting married, kneeling before the minister (McKinley) who is reading
from a book entitled "Annexation Policy".
The bride seems ready to bolt. Behind the couple stands Morgan (jingo)
with a shotgun. Courtesy of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Archives
From Southern Connecticut State University, the is an excellent primary source LibGuide on US Imperialism. Click on the cartoon to go to the site.
Infobase database: American History
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Who We Are
The Office of the Historian is staffed by professional historians who are experts in the history of U.S. foreign policy and the Department of State and possess unparalleled research experience in classified and unclassified government records. The Office’s historians work closely with other federal government history offices, the academic historical community, and specialists across the globe. The Office is directed by Dr. Stephen Randolph, The Historian of the U.S. Department of State.
What We Do
The Office of the Historian is responsible, under law, for the preparation and publication of the official documentary history of U.S. foreign policy in the Foreign Relations of the United States series.
Here you can find information on all topics:
Hawaii, Alaska, the Philippines to name a few.
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U.S History In-Context
Use this database from Gale to search
all of your topics
from the building of the Panama Canal to the Annexation of Hawaii.
Use the search box on the left to go to the site
Click below to get to the encyclopedia.
The National Archives is an EXCELLENT source.
Click on the icon for information on the Annexation of Hawaii
Hawaii
Click on image to get an article about the last queen.
This web site has information about the Spanish American War and it's relations to the War in Cuba, the War in the Philippens & the War in Puerto Rico.
Click on the image to go to the web site's main page.
American Experience: Panama Canal
On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world’s two largest oceans and signaling America’s emergence as a global superpower. American ingenuity and innovation had succeeded where, just a few years earlier, the French had failed disastrously. But the U.S. paid a price for victory.
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Written by a historian, the page this flag links to is a discussion on Japanese Imperialism.