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Special issue on War of 1898
Volume 12, no 3, Spring 1998

Table of Contents/Front Matter

FROM THE EDITOR

1898: A War of the World
Louis A. Perez, Jr.

HISTORIOGRAPHY

U.S. Intervention in Cuba, 1898: Interpreting the Spanish
American Cuban-Filipino War
Thomas G. Paterson

Democracy Beats the "Disaster" Complex Spanish Interpretations of the Colonial Crisis
Silvia L. Hilton

ESSAYS

Why Did the United States Fight Spain in 1898?
John Offner

Puerto Rico in the Whirlwind of 1898 Conflict, Continuity, and Change
Luis Martìnez Fernàndez

1898: The Onset of America's Troubled Asian Century
Michael H. Hunt

Tampa's Splendid Little War: Local History and the Cuban War of Independence
Gary R. Mormino

LESSON PLANS

Multiple Intelligences and the World Wide Web: A New Approach to Teaching About the War (HTML)
PDF Version
Michelle D. Walker

The Birth of the American Empire as Seen Through Political Cartoons (1896-1905)
Luis Martìnez Fernàndez

Document-Based Questions: An Example for the War of 1898
Michael Chimes, John Ripton, Frank Delfer, Andy Gedrich,
Tara McCall, Sarah Ripton, Megan Manner

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Imperialism An ERIC/CHESS Sample
Matthew Paris

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