Causes

• Economic Reasons
  
• Ideological Reasons
  
• Strategic Reasons
  
• Political Reasons
  

Apostles

• navalists Stephen Luce and Alfred Thayer Mahan
• publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
• reporter/explorer Henry Morton Stanley
• writers John Fiske and Josiah Strong and John Burgess
• Senators Charles Sumner and George Shoup and Albert Beveridge
• Secretaries of State Hamilton Fish (1869-77), James G. Blaine (1881, 1889-92), Thomas F. Bayard (1885-89)
• businessmen Isaac Singer and Bernard Baruch and Meyer Guggenheim

Precedents

• In the Pacific: Hawaii, Midway, Samoa
• In the Caribbean: Dominican Republic, Cuba
• In Central America: Nicaragua, Panama
• In South America: Chile
• In North America: Alaska, Canada
• In Asia: China, Korea
• In Africa: Belgian Congo, Liberia

Links:

• Spanish-American War Films from American Memory at Library of Congress
• A Moment in Time With The Oregon [battleship BB-3] by Nat Richards from NavisMagazine for the 100th Anniversary of the Spanish-American War (1898-1998)
• Spanish-American War exhibit from NYPL
• World of 1898 Exhibit from LC
• Detroit Publishing Co. photos from turn of the century from LC American Memory
• Filmnotes for Fitzcarraldo and Victoria & Albert
• Huxley file of illustrations
• Jonestown mass suicide of 1978, Yahoo index
• World map - bg