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The American Anti-Imperialist League - Digital Archive - Nathan Spicer

A digital archive of essays from and other primary source material on The American Anti-Imperialist League. Primary resources gather and curated by Nathan Spicer in partial completion of the requirements of the HIST 1011 Field Experience.

Book: The New Star Chamber and Other Essays (Theodore Roosevelt) (The Philippine Conquest)

Edgar Lee Masters - Book - The New Star Chamber and Other Essays - Includes Theodore Roosevelt - Implied Powers and Imperialism - The Philippine Conquest

“During the campaign of 1900 the argument
advanced against the Philippine aggression
was the repudiation of the fundamental principles
of the republic involved in that aggression. And coupled with this was the claim of injustice being
perpetrated against a helpless people.”

- from "The Philippine Conquest"

--- Edgar Lee Masters

Masters, Edgar Lee. The New Star Chamber: And Other Essays. Chicago: The Hammersmark Publishing Company, 1904. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t4gm81w11