10 Social Studies: Phillipines

Websites

• The Spanish-American War

  Summary on the Spanish-American War from the US Library of Congress

• American Imperialism

  Helpful notes put together for education purposes. Provides a brief overview of American Imperialism in different parts of the world, including Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippines

• The Philippines, 1898–1946

  Resources put together by the United States House of Representatives, many detailed references to explore

• Frontline (PBS): A Conflicted Land: Rebellions, Wars, and Insurgencies in the Phillippines

• Fordham University - Edwin Wildman: A Visit to Aguinaldo, Leader of the Philippine Rebels, 1898

• TImeline of the Spanish American War

  Chronology for the Philippine Islands and Guam in the Spanish-American War at the Library of Congress.

Databases

• Imperial narratives: reading US soldiers' photo albums of the Philippine–American War.

  This journal article questions primary sources that are stripped of their original context

• ESBO - The Philippine War

  Some historians believe that the U.S. intended to grab Philippine territory, fueled by racism and imperialism, but others believe it was a benevolent and successful exercise in nation-building. What do you think?

• EBSCO - Colonialism in Denial, US propoganda in the Philippine War

  This article provides a brief account of the American conquest of the Philippines and the attendant atrocities that accompanies it. It also explains how these brutal events were justified to the American public as hard but necessary acts of "Benevolent Assimilation", for the benign tutelage of the Filipino.

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