"The Spanish War, 1898"
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By Dave Rogers
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HISTORIC SITES
Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay New York, (516) 922 - 4447
The home of Theodore Roosevelt and the spiritual center of the age of the
"American Empire".
Presidio of San Francisco, California (415) 561 - 4115
Assembly camp of the 8th Corps.
Angel Island, Tiburon, California (415) 435 - 1915
Discharge center for troops returning from the Philippines.
Henry Plant Museum, Univ. of Tampa, Tampa Fla. (813) 253 - 3333
The site of the H.Q of the 5th corps.
USS Olympia, Philidelphia, Penn. (215) 922 - 1898
Dewey's flagship and the only surviving warship of the conflict. Super
Cool!
McKinley Memorial Library, Niles Ohio, (216) 652 - 1704
Everything about the events and the man who took us into the 20th
Century.
SUGGESTED READING
There is actually a very large amount of material on the Spanish War. To
get started we recommend you at least read the following (as a service to
the reader, clicking on the titles in red
will take you to that book on Amazon.com):
The Splendid Little War, Frank Freidel, Little, Brown, 1958.
Great photos & maps, perhaps the best place to start.
The
Little
War of Private Post, Charles Johnson Post, Little
Brown, 1960.
The best first hand account, surprisingly modern.
The
Spanish
War : An American Epic--1898, G.J.A. O'Toole, W.W.
Norton, 1984.
Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War, Douglas Allen,
Crown, 1971.
The war as a great artist saw it.
VIDEO
The Splendid Little War, Belle Grove Publishing, 1992.
Early movies of actual troops going to Cuba, script by Brian Pohanka.
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