Spanish American War
(see also Philippines & Cuba)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Spanish American War Centennial.
The World of 1898: Spanish American War.
In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Acosta Matos, Eliades. Los colores secretos del imperio (La Habana: Mercie, 2002).
Alvarez, Santiago V. Recalling the Revolution: Memoirs of a Filipino General (Madison: U. of Wisconsin, 1992).
Arrieta Vilá, Rubén. 1898: desde todas las trincheras (San Juan PR: Plaza Mayor, 2002).
Bain, David Haward. Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines (NY: Penguin, 1986).
Berner, Brad K. The Spanish-American War: Historical Dictionary (Lanham MD: Scarecrow, 1998).
Blow, Michael. A Ship to Remember: The Maine & the Spanish American War (NY: Morrow, 1992).
Bouvier, Virginia M. (ed.) Whose America? The War of 1898 & the Battles to Define the Nation (Westport CT: Praeger, 2001).
Brands, H.W. The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (NY: St. Martin's, 1995).
Burgos Malavé, Eda M. (ed.) El conflicto de 1898: Antecedentes y consecuencias inmediatas (Rio Piedras PR: UPR Facultad de Estudios Generales, 2000).
Carrasco García, Antonio. La guerra con Estados Unidos: Cuba 1898 (Madrid: Almena, 1998).
Churchill, Bernardita Reyes (ed.) Determining the Truth: The Story of Andrés Bonifacio (Manila, 1997). Critiques of May, Inventing a Hero.
Cirillo, Vincent J. Bullets & Bacilli: The Spanish-American War & Military Medicine (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 2004).
Feuer, A.B. The Santiago Campaign of 1898: A Soldier's View of the Spanish-American War (Westport CT: Praeger, 1993).
__________ (ed.) America at War: The Philippines, 1898-1913 (Westport CT: Praeger, 2002).
Foner-Philip S. The Spanish-Cuban-American War & the Birth of American Imperialism (2 vols.; NY: Monthly Review, 1972).
Healy, David F. The US in Cuba, 1898-1902: Generals, Politicians & the Search for Policy (Madison: U. of Wisconsin, 1963).
Jeffers, H. Paul. Colonel Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt Goes to War, 1897-1898 (NY: J. Wiley, 1996).
Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri & Andrew Lowney (eds.) North American Spies: New Revisionist Essays (Edinburgh: U. of Edinburgn, 1991).
Pico, Fernando. Puerto Rico 1898: The War After the War (trans. Sylvia Korweck & Psique Arana Guzmán: Princeton NJ: Markus Wiener, 200?).
Marolda, Edward J. (ed.) Theodore Roosevelt, the US Navy & the Spanish American War (NY: Palgrave, 2001).
May, Glenn Anthony. Inventing a Hero: The Posthumous Re-Creation of Andrés Bonifacio (Madison: U. of Wisconsin, 1996).
Musicant, Ivan. Empire by Default: The Spanish American War & the Dawn of the American Century (NY: H. Holt, 1998).
Offner, John L. An Unwanted War: The Diplomacy of the US & Spain over Cuba, 1895-1898 (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1992).
Pérez, Louis A. The War of 1898: The US & Cuba in History & Historiography (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1998).
Post, Charles Johnson. The Little War of Private Post: The Spanish American War Seen Up Close (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1999).
Remesal, Antonio. El enigma del Maine, 1898: el suceso que provocó la guerra de Cuba. Accidente o sabotaje? (Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1998).
Rodao, Florentino & Felice Noelle Rodríguez (eds.) The Philippine Revolution of 1896: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times (Manila: Ateneo, 2001).
Roosevelt, Theodore. The Rough Riders [1902] (ed. Marifeli Pérez-Stable; Chicago: Lakeside, 2003).
Schirmer, Daniel B. Republic or Empire? American Resistance to the Philippine War (Cambridge MA: Schenkman, 1972).
Schoonover, Thomas D. Uncle Sam's War of 1898 & the Origins of Globalization (Lexington: U. of Kentucky, 2003).
Scott, Edward Van Zile. Unwept, Unhonored, Unsung: Black American Soldiers & the Spanish American War (Montgomery AL: Black Belt, 1995).
Segovia, L. The Full Story of Aguinaldo's Capture (Manila, 1902).
Tebbel, John William. America's Great Patriotic War with Spain: Mixed Motives, Lies, & Racism in Cuba & the Philippines, 1898-1915 (Manchester Center VT: Marshall Jones, 1996).
Traxel, David. 1898: The Birth of the American Century (NY: Vintage, 1999).
Zaide, Gregorio. The Philippine Revolution (Manila: Modern Book, 1954).
Zimmerman, Warren. First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made their Country a World Power (NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2002).
In the Library: Fiction
Bowen, Peter. Imperial Kelly (NY: Crown, 1992).
Leonard, Elmore. Cuba Libre (NY: Dell, 1999).
Lynch, Daniel. Yellow: A Novel (NY: Walker, 1992).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War" [1898?], dir. Daniel Miller, ?m.