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- Item Type > Fiction/Poetry (x)
- Tag > Philippine-American War (x)
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"The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands"
In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled "The White Man's Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands." In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the "burden" of empire, as had Britain and [...]
Tags: Philippine-American War
Item Type: Fiction/Poetry
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
"The 'White Man's Burden': Uncle Sam to Kipling"
"Droch" was the pen name of Robert Bridges, a critic and editor at Scribner's and Life magazines and a friend to both Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. In this response to Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden," he opens by sarcastically [...]
Tags: Philippine-American War, Uncle Sam
Item Type: Fiction/Poetry
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)