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Article: INSULAR VISIONS: CARTOGRAPHIC IMAGERY AND THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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This year, 1998, marks the centennial of the Spanish-American War or, as Secretary of State John Hay called it, "that splendid little war." The war's events have long since evaporated from popular memory, leaving only a few images such as Teddy Roosevelt rampaging up San Juan Hill or the cry of "Remember the Maine!," a U.S. battleship sunk in Havana harbor. For the United States, however, the 113-day confrontation marked an epochal shift in the national identity. U.S. forces sent a European power skittering for cover and acquired for the United States the widely separated territories of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba. An enthusiastic jingoism, fed by political ...