As practice writing primary source intros and getting used to formatting in WordPress before your independent project, you’ll share your American Empire primary source analysis on our class sandbox here. Make sure that you post your intro paragraphs and an image that represents your source on your assigned document page (I’m listing these chronologically).
- Mary and Margaret Leitch, “The Women of Heathen Lands Need the Gospel” (1890)
- José Martí and Máximo Gómez, “For the Good of America and the World” (1895)
- John M. Thurston, “We Must Act!” (1898)
- The New England Woman Suffrage Association, “Women Can and Do Fight” (1898)
- Henry M. Teller, “The People of the Island of Cuba Are, and of Right Ought to Be, Free and Independent” (1898)
- Queen Liliuokalani, “The ‘Missionary Party’ Took the Law into Its Own Hands” (1898)
- Máximo Gómez, “A Tutelage Imposed by Force of Circumstances” (1899)
- John Clifford Brown, “I Have Really Enjoyed the Hardships, the Excitement, the Change” (1901)
- Elihu Root & Orville Platt, “The Platt Amendment” (1901)
- Roberto H. Todd et al, “Porto Rico Enslaved” (1905)
- Edith Moses, “The Filipinos are Like Children” (1908)
- Carson, “The United States has about $750,000,000 invested in Mexico” (1909)
- Louis S. Meikle, “With the Americans You Must Be White!” (1912)
- William T. Hornaday, “All That Remained of Them Were Several Acres of Bones” (1913)
- Frederick Upham Adams, “The United Fruit Company is More Than a Corporation” (1914)
- W.E.B. DuBois “Ownership of Materials and Men in the Darker World” (1915)
- James Weldon Johnson, “The Truth about the Conquest of Haiti” (1920)
- Charles T. Magill, “Not One Person of Color had a Vote” (1920)
- Carlos P. Romulo, “I Hated those Blue-eyed Foreign Devils” (1961)