A Growing Global Power

Unit Resources

Unit Reference Materials

Brandes, Stuart D. Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

Monroy, Douglas. Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999.

Nash, Gary B., Julie Roy Jeffrey, John R. Howe. Peter J. Frederick, and Allan M. Winkler. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, 6th ed. New York: Pearson Education Inc., 2004. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc.

Silva, Noenoe K. Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.

Wood, Peter, Jacqueline Jones, Thomas Borstelmann, Elaine Tyler May, and Vicki Ruiz. Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States. New York: Pearson Education Inc., 2003. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc.

Further Reading

Lens, Sidney. The Forging of the American Empire: From the Revolution to Vietnam: A History of American Imperialism (Human Security). London: Pluto Press, 2003.

Loewen, James. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: The New Press, 1995.

Samuels, Peggy, and Harold Samuels. Remembering the Maine. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.

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World's Fairs and the Dawning of the "American Century" (PDF)

The Philippine-American War (PDF)

Organization of American Historians: Talking History Radio Program

The Charge Up San Juan Hill: a talk with Mathew Oyos

22 June 1998 air date
Listen Now: Real Audio 14.4

This program also features a commentary by Frank Schubert, historian of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff, who discusses who deserves credit for the 1898 victory.