1. Read: An American Empire - Document Overview
2. Read: The War Must Be Ended (1897), The New York World
3. Read: Declaration of War (1898), President William McKinley
4. Read: Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League (1899)

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1. View: Building lock on Panama Canal
2. View: Women sweeping
3. View: Cartoon lampooning Seward's purchase of Alaska
4. View: The battleship Maine entering Havana Harbor
5. View: Cartoon depicting the sinking of the Maine in Havana harbor
6. View: Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders"
7. View: "Well, I Hardly Know Which to Take First"
8. View: Emilio Aguinaldo and other leaders of the Filipino insurgents
9. View: Western powers and Japan occupying the Forbidden City in Peking
10. View: "The World's Constable"
11. View: Roosevelt campaigns
12. View: Cayuse chief
13. View: Dr. Kane's Arctic Explorations
14. View: Uncle Sam's Christmas Dream

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1. View: Spanish-American War: The Pacific, 1898
2. View: Spanish-American War: The Caribbean, 1898
3. View: U.S. Interests in the Pacific
4. View: U.S. Interests in the Caribbean

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1.  Len Spencer first recorded advertisement for the "genuine Edison Phonograph," c. 1906

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1.  Roosevelt's Rough Riders Head for War, 1898

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