Website Spotlight: The Age of Imperialism

Website URL: http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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I ask the students to work through the following links:

Expansion in the Pacific: A Letter to an Emperor
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/letter.html

Hawaii: Footholds in the Pacific
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/hawaii.html

The Spanish-American War: Remember the Maine
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/remember.html

The Spanish-American War: A Splendid Little War
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/splendid.html

The Phillipines: A Gift from the Gods
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/gift.html

The Boxer Rebellion
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/fists.html

The Panama Canal
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/joining.html

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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Eyes+Abroad

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT