Resources for use with Students
Excerpts from the testimony of Admiral Dewey in front of a Congressional Committee investigating the Naval operations in Manila in 1898. Excerpts from pp1-14 to be reproduced for student use from Graff, Henry F. American Imperialism and the Philippine Insurrection (Testimony of the Times: Selections From Congressional Hearings) Little, Brown and Company, 1969
Excerpts from the testimony of Robert P. Hughes, U.S. Army, commander of the First Military District of the Philippine Islands in 1899, and in 1900 of the Department of the Visayan Islands. His testimony on the brutality of the war including the use of the Water Cure. Excerpts from pp64-72 to be reproduced for student use from Graff, Henry F. American Imperialism and the Philippine Insurrection (Testimony of the Times: Selections From Congressional Hearings) Little, Brown and Company, 1969
Images from the St Louis Exposition. The three images I plan to use are available in the Public Domain for reproduction, photographs and advertisements. They can also be found in p 272 and 277 of Kramer, Paul A. Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, & the Philippines.
Images from The Boxer Codex circa 1590s by an unknown Spanish author and Chinese Illustrator. Focus on illustrations of Tagalog nobles, Visayan nobles, Sangley (Chinese) Migrants in the Philippines. Public Domain
Images from Tipos del País. 1841 set of watercolors depicting different “types” of people from the islands. Public Domain
Text of the poem The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling: (first published in The Times (London) on 4 February 1899, and in The New York Sun on 5 February 1899.)
Take up the White Man's burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man's burden—
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain.
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden—
The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden—
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper—
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead!
Take up the White Man's burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"
Take up the White Man's burden—
Ye dare not stoop to less
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden—
Have done with childish days—
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!11
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