The Debate Over the Philippines: To Imperialize or Not to Imperialize---That Was the Question

George Ade

African Americans
Soldiers in the Sun: The Philippine War

Emilio Aguinaldo
Aguinaldo's Manifesto
Aginauldo's Case Against the United States
Aguinaldo's Manifesto Recognizing the Opening of Hostilities
Aguinaldo's Manifesto Reminding the Filipino People on the Importance of the Independence Struggle

Interview with General Aguinaldo
Emilio Aguinaldo, President of the Independent Philippine Republic

American Troops
American Soldiers in the Philippines Write Home about the War

Anti-Imperialist League
Platform of the Anti-Imperialist League
Anti-Imperialist League

John Barrett
The Problem of the Philippines
The Paramount Power of the Pacific

Senator Albert J. Beveridge
Albert J. Beveridge: In Support of an American Empire
Congressional Record: Senator Albert J. Beveridge on Expansion
Congressional Record: Senator Albert J. Beveridge on Expansion, January 9, 1900, Chapter 30
Modern History Sourcebook: Albert J. Beveridge: The March of the Flag

George S. Boutwell

William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan: The Paralyzing Influence of Imperialism

Andrew Carnegie
Americanism vs. Imperialism, pp. 362-373
Americanism vs. Imperialism, pp. 1-14

Americanism vs. Imperialism II

Charles A. Connant
The Economic Basis of "Imperialism"

Charles Denby
America's Opportunity in Asia

Finley Peter Dunne

Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers (President of the American Federation of Labor)
Imperialism--Its Dangers and Wrongs

John Hay
First Open Door Note (1899)

Mayo W. Hazeltine
What Shall Be Done about the Philippines?

George Hoar
Subjugation of the Philippines I
George Hoar: The Lust for Empire

Queen Liliuokalani

Henry Cabot Lodge

Enrique de Lome

Sixto Lopez
The Filipinos Will Not "Take Up the White Man's Burden" (Scroll down)

Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Influence of Sea Power on History
The United States Looking Outward
Alfred T. Mahan on Sea Power, 1890

William McKinley
William McKinley: The Aquisition of the Philippines
President William McKinley's "Benevolent Assimilation" Proclamation
The Benevolent Assimiliation Proclamation
President McKinley's "Benevolent Assimilation" Proclamation.
William McKinley: Second Inaugural Address (Read the last paragraph.)

President William McKinley (Republican)

Philippino View

Carl Schurz
Anti-Imperialist Essays, Speeches, and Pamphlets: The 1890s
(Skim down; lots of articles)

Carl Schurz against American Imperialism, 1899
Carl Schurz Speaks to Anti-Imperialists
Anti-Imperialists in Mass Meeting
Thoughts on American Imperialism
Manifest Destiny

Southerners
Bryan or McKinley? The Present Duty of American Citizens

Josiah Strong
Josiah Strong on Anglo-Saxon Predominance, 1891
Josiah Strong, Our Country (1885)
Josiah Strong, "Our Country," 1885
Voices for Imperialism: Josiah Strong and the Protestant Clergy

Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt's Proclamation Ending the Philippine-American War
The Philippine-American War Documents

Rough Riders

Mark Twain
Mark Twain and Imperialism
To the Person Sitting in Darkness

Women and Imperialism

Dean C. Worchester
Knotty Problems of the Philippines

 

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