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1829:
Treaty between
the United States and Hawaii (12/26) |
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1833:
Traveler John Ball Visits Hawaii in 1833 |
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1849:
U. S. Treaty
with the Hawaiian Islands (12/20) |
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1854:
Commodore
Matthew Perry: When We Landed in Japan |
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1854:
Treaty
of Kanagawa |
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1854:
President
Fillmore's Letter to the Emperor of Japan |
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1858:
The
Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between the United States and Japan
(The Harris Treaty) |
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1858:
Treaty
of Tien-Tsin (6/18/1858) |
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1868:
Burlingame-Seward Treaty |
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1868:
Check for the purchase of Alaska transcript (3/30) |
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1875:
Treaty of
Reciprocity between the United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom (5/31) |
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1876-1920:
Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart |
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1884:
Hawai'i-United
States Convention (12/6) |
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1885:
"The
independence of Hawaii" - editorial article from the Pacific
Commercial advertiser (7/28) |
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1885:
Our Country - Josiah Strong |
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1887:
Constitution Kingdom of Hawaii of 1887 (7/6) |
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1890:
"American Influence in China" - John Russell Young,
North American Review (Aug.) |
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1890:
"The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" - Alfred Thayer Mahan in the
Oct. issue of Atlantic Monthly |
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1891:
"On Anglo-Saxon Predominance" - Josiah Strong |
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1892:
Speech by
President Grover Cleveland on Hawaii (12/18) |
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1893:
President Cleveland's Message on Hawaiian Sovereignty (12/18) |
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1893:
World's
Parliament of Religions" - Rev. J. H. Barrows - Christianity in Asia |
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1895:
"The Business World vs. the Politicians" - Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. |
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1895:
"On American Jurisdiction in the Western Hemisphere" -
Richard Olney |
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1896:
"America's Interest in Eastern Asia" - John
Barrett, North American Review (March) |
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1896:
"American Interests in the Cuban Revolution" - Grover
Cleveland |
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1896:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform |
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1897:
"The Absurdity of War" - E. L. Godkin,
The Century (Jan. ) |
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1897:
Breckenridge
Amendment |
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1897:
"Chinese Slavery in America" - Charles Frederick Holder,
North American Review (Sept.) |
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1898-1920:
Anti-Imperialist League Documents |
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1898:
"The Acquisition of the Philippines" - President
McKinley |
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1898:
"America's Interests in China" - General James H.
Wilson in The North American Review, vol. 166, issue 495 (Feb.) |
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1898:
American Soldiers in the Philippines Write Home about
the War |
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1898:
American Troops in the Phillipines - photo |
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1898:
The
Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands |
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1898:
The
Battle of Manila Bay - Admiral George Dewey |
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1898:
"The Blowing up of the Maine" - Albert Shaw |
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1898:
"Chinese Exclusion" - Robert Green Ingersoll |
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1898:
"Civilization
Begins at Home" - political cartoon |
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1898:
Congressional Medal of Honor
winner Frank Anders describes a skirmish during the
Philippine Insurrection (sound file) |
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1898:
Date With Destiny - The N. G. Gonzales Diary |
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1898:
DeLôme
Letter |
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1898:
"Dewey
Smashes Spain's Fleet!" - The World's front page (5/2) |
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1898:
"First Speech Against Imperialism" - William
Jennings Bryan, Extract from speech delivered at Trans-Mississippi
Exposition, Omaha, Neb. (6/14) |
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1898:
Hearst’s Journal Blames Spain |
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1898:
"Jefferson Versus Imperialism" - William Jennings
Bryan, New York Journal (12/25) |
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1898:
Joint Resolution to provide for the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands
(7/7) |
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1898:
"The March of the Flag" - Albert Beveridge (9/16) |
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1898:
“A Message to García” - Elbert Hubbard’s Paean to
Perseverance |
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1898:
The New York World reports
the battleship Maine explosion |
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1898:
"Our Future in the Pacific - What We Have There to Hold and Win" - G.
W. Commodore Melville in The North American Review, vol. 166,
issue 496 (Mar.) |
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1898:
President McKinley's Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation (12/21) |
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1898:
"Pruebas de cariño" [Signs of Friendship].
El Cardo [The
Thistle], Madrid - caricature (2/4) |
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1898:
Recognition of the Independence of Cuba |
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1898:
"Save Me From My Friends!" - political cartoon
from Puck (9/7) |
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1898:
"Seward's Ideas of Territorial Expansion" - Frederic
Bancroft in The North American Review, vol. 167, issue 500
(July) |
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1898:
"The Star in the East" - drawing for cartoon published in
The World
(April) |
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1898:
A
Times
Editorial on the Maine Tragedy (2/17)
(another page) |
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1898:
"To the Person
Sitting in Darkness" - Mark Twain |
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1898:
Treaty
of Paris, 1898 |
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1898: U. S. v V. Wong KimArk (3/28) -14th
Amendment to the Constitution applied to all people born in the United
States "regardless of race or color." |
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1898:
War Prayer written by Mark Twain (even though he opposed the war) |
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1898:
"The War With Spain and After" - Walter Hines (Atlantic Monthly,
June) |
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1898:
"We'll Stand By the Flag" - sheet music cover |
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1898-1900:
Various documents on the debate over the Philippines
(additional documents) |
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1899:
"Aguinaldo's Case Against the United States,"
The
North American Review, vol. 169, issue 514 (September) |
|
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1899: "The Battery of Imperialism" - political cartoon by Horace Taylor in
The Verdict (9/25) |
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1899:
“The Black Man’s Burden” - A Response to Kipling |
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1899:
"The Break-up of China and our Interest in It,"
The
Atlantic Monthly, vol. 84, issue 502 (August) |
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1899:
The British Reply to the Open Door Note (11/30) |
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1899:
Carl Schurz against American Imperialism |
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1899:
"Charity Begins at Home" - poem by X-Ray,
The
Colored American (3/18) |
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1899:
"Democracy
or Militarism - speech by Jane Addams at the Chicago Liberty Meeting
(4/30) |
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1899:
First Open Door Note (Sept.)
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1899:
"Home Burdens of Uncle Sam" - poem by Anne Manning Comfort (a parody
of Kipling's poem) - doc. #4 on the page |
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1899:
"Imperialism" - political cartoon from
The Verdict July 24, 1899 by C. Gordon Moffat
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1899:
"Is He to Be a Despot?" - political cartoon about President McKinley |
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1899:
"A Letter from the Filipino Junta" - Galicano Apacible,
The Public 2 (6/10) |
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1899:
“Liberty Halts American Butchery in the Phillipines" - political
cartoon |
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1899:
"Lightening
the White Man's Burden" - advertisement by Pear's Soap in McClure's
Magazine (Oct.) |
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1899:
The Open
Door Note submitted by U.S. Secretary of State, John Hay (8/6) |
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1899:
"The "Open Door" Policy in the Philippines" - Frank D.
Pavey in The North American Review, vol. 169, issue 516
(November) |
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1899:
“A Perfect Hailstorm of Bullets”- A Black Sergeant
Remembers the Battle of San Juan Hill |
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1899:
"The
Philippine Tangle" - William James in the Boston
Evening Transcript (3/1) |
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1899:
Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League |
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1899:
“The Poor Man’s Burden”- Labor Lampoons Kipling |
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1899:
A Puerto Rican Farmer Laments U.S. Control of the
Island |
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1899:
The Russian Reply to the Open Door Note (12/18) |
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1899:
"The Shame of Imperialism" - Frances E. Russell,
The
Woman's Journal 30 (3/18)
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1899?:
The War Prayer
- Mark Twain
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1899:
"The White Man's Burden" - poem by Rudyard Kipling |
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1899:
"The White
Man's Burden" - political cartoon in The Detroit Journal (2/18) |
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1899-91:
Diary
Entries of George Percival Schriven - war in the Philippines |
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late 1890s:
"The Light of the World" - political cartoon on imperialism in
The Ram's Horn (at the end of the page) |
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1900:
"America's
Share in a Partition of China" - Demetrius C. Boulger, North
American Review (Aug.) |
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1900:
"America's
Treatment of the Chinese" - Charles F. Holder, North American
Review (Aug.) |
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1900:
"The American Policy in China" - Charles W. Dilke
The North American Review, vol. 170, issue 522 (May)
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1900:
Anti-Imperialist Homecoming - Mark Twain (10/6 & 15) |
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1900:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform |
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1900:
"The
effect of imperialism upon the negro race. Ably set out by a colored
man. (Written by Kelly Miller, professor of mathematics in Howard
University, Washington, DC for the Springfield Republican. Boston,
Mass.
Published by the N. E. Anti-Imperialist League" - broadside |
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1900:
"The Filipino's Vain Hope of Independence" - Marrion
WIlcox The North American Review, vol. 171, issue 526 (Sept.) |
|
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1900:
"The Growth of Our Foreign Policy" - Richard Olney (March) |
|
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1900:
"Imperialism: America's Historic Policy" - W. A. Peffer
The North American Review, vol. 171, issue 525 (Aug.) |
|
|
1900:
"In Support of an American Empire" - speech by Senator Albert J.
Beveridge (IN) |
|
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1900:
"Our Chinese policy. What we should forfeit in declaring war. 'Most
favored nation' treaties to be preserved at all costs - Horace N.
Fisher - leaflet |
|
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1900:
"Our
Pacific Opportunity" - John Barrett, Overland Monthly
(Feb.) |
|
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1900:
"Our
Rights in China" - Mark B. Dunnell, Atlantic Monthly
(Aug.) |
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1900:
Speech by William Jennings Bryan to the Democratic
National Convention, "The Paralyzing Influence of Imperialism |
|
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1900:
"War as a Moral Medicine" - Goldwin Smith
The
Atlantic Monthly, vol. 86, issue 518 (Dec.) |
|
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1901:
"The
American Flag" - Mark Twain |
|
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1901:
"Democracy and Efficiency" - Woodrow Wilson
The
Atlantic Monthly, vol. 87, issue 521 (Mar.)
|
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1901:
"To The Person Sitting in Darkness" - Mark Twain |
|
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1901:
Platt Amendment |
|
|
1902:
Crosby on Kipling - A Parody of “The White Man’s
Burden” |
|
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1903:
"Exit Anti-Imperialism,"
The Independent 55
(9/24) |
|
|
1903:
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (11/18) - Panama Canal |
|
|
1903:
Platt
Amendment |
|
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1904:
Convention Between the United States and the Republic of Panama |
|
|
1904:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform |
|
|
1904:
"I
rather like that imported affair" - political cartoon by Grant
Hamilton from Puck (9/21) |
|
|
1904:
"The Panama Affair of 1903: Roosevelt--Hay Diplomacy,"
Open Letter to John Hay, By D. H. Chamberlain (From the New York
Times (10/2) |
|
|
1904:
"The Philippine Conquest" - Edgar Lee Masters
From The New Star Chamber and Other Essays (Chicago:
Hammersmark Publishing Co., 1904) |
|
|
1904:
"The Religious Argument" - William Jennings Bryan,
The Commoner (12/30) |
|
|
1904:
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe
Doctrine -
Theodore Roosevelt’s Annual Message to
Congress (12/6)
|
|
|
1905:
"Filipino Opinion of Reconcentration,"
El
Renacimiento (6/30) |
|
|
1905:
Taft-Katsura Agreement |
|
|
1905:
Treaty
of Portsmouth |
|
|
1906:
"The
White Man's Burden" - William Jennings Bryan
- Address at the Independence Day Banquet of the
American Society of London (7/4) |
|
|
1907:
Gentlemen's Agreement excerpt |
|
|
1909:
"The Threat
of Japan" - Theodore Roosevelt |
|
|
1911:
"Patriotism--A Menace to Liberty" - Emma Goldman |
|
|
1911:
Rickover Clears Spain of the Maine Explosion |
|
|
1912:
"Corollary
to the Monroe Doctrine" - Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. |
|
|
1912:
"Dollar
Diplomacy" - President Taft |
|
|
1913:
President Wilson's Address to Congress on Mexico (9/27)
|
|
|
1913:
"Repudiation
of 'Dollar Diplomacy'" - Woodrow Wilson in the
American Journal of International Law,
Vol. VII |
|
|
1914:
Bandits or Patriots -- Documents from Charlemagne
Péralte |
|
|
1914:
John Reed’s “What About Mexico” - The United States and
the Mexican Revolution |
|
|
1914?:
"What the United States Has Fought For" - political cartoon on
immigration |
|
|
1914:
Woodrow Wilson's Speech to Congress Regarding Mexico (The Tampico
Affair) |
|
|
1915:
“A Danger for All Latin American Countries,” Letters
from Venustiano Carranza |
|
|
1915:
"There is hard sledding ahead for the missionaries" -
political cartoon in the Columbus Dispatch |
|
|
1916:
“Avoid the Use of the Word Intervention” - Wilson and
Lansing on the U.S. Invasion of Mexico |
|
|
1919-20:
“The People Were Very Peaceable” - The U.S. Senate
Investigates the Haitian Occupation |
|
|
1920:
"Self-Determining
Haiti" - report by James Weldon Johnson in The Nation (8/28) |
|
|
1920:
“The Truth about Haiti - An NAACP Investigation” |
|
|
1921:
"Hearing the Truth About Haiti," By Helena Hill Weed,
The Nation 113 (11/9) |
|
|
1921:
"Pan-Americanism," By Scott Nearing, Chapter 15 of
The American Empire (New York: Rand School of Social Science,
1921) |
|
|
1922:
"Haiti under American Occupation" - Ernest H. Gruening,
The Century 103 (April) |
|
|
1925?:
American Imperialism: The Menace of the Greatest
Capitalist World Power
By Jay Lovestone (Chicago: Workers Party of America, n.d. [1925]) |
|
|
1926:
“Conclusions and Recommendations by the Committee of
Six Disinterested Americans" - Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) |
|
|
1927:
"Imperialism
Is Easy" - John Dewey in The New Republic 50 (3/23) |
|
|
1927:
Peace of Tipitapa |
