Showing posts with label the Spanish-American War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Spanish-American War. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

William McKinley: President during the Spanish-American War

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In 1898, President William McKinley sent American troops to fight in Cuba and the Philippines . This conflict is now known as the  “Spanis...
Friday, November 8, 2024

American naval power: Playing a crucial role in the rise of the United States

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“An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, shipping of goods, wares, a...
Friday, October 11, 2024

A review of Ken Burns’ “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History”

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A miniseries covering Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt Just as the Americans remember  Mr. Churchill , so do t...
Monday, July 1, 2024

A review of “The Spanish-American War” (audiobook)

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The Spanish-American War started out as one of the most popular wars in  American history . It was only long after the fact that it started ...
Monday, April 29, 2024

A review of PBS’s “Citizen Hearst” (American Experience)

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An anecdote about the movie “Citizen Kane” (made by Orson Welles in 1941) In 1941, Orson Welles released a film called “Citizen Kane,” whi...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

A review of PBS’s “Asian Americans”

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“ … from and after the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the pa...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

A review of PBS’s “The Gilded Age” (American Experience)

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A portrait of capitalism (and some other things) in late nineteenth-century America This film is a portrait of capitalism (and some other th...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

A review of PBS’s “The Latino Americans”

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“[The Congress shall have the power] To establish an uniform rule of naturalization … ” – Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 4 of the United S...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

A review of “TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt”

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"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman;...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

A review of "Crucible of Empire: the Spanish-American War"

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I just finished watching "Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War," PBS's two-hour documentary about this time. I wa...