A Centennial Listing, revised 10/22/98; under
partial update and revision 2/07
Comp. by Mark H. Rothenberg, Sr. Ref. Specialist mrothen@suffolk.lib.ny.us, with
special thanks to Jean Kaleda for assistance with Spanish-language sources.
Note: An asterisk (*) indicates a particularly recommended site of general or
L.I. interest.
Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders,
* Spanish-American War Centennial Website
(Spamamwar.com)
Official
centennial website (1898-1998), it is still updated, has expanded, and is an
excellent starting point, whether for research or
casual browsing. It is now archived monthly, as part of the U.S. Library
of Congress' Minerva Project. It contains a site outline, chronology, background on the Cuban Revolution
(1895-1898), covers the war in the Philippines, Cuba, Hawaii, and Guam, contains basic
warships' data and operations, under The U.S. Navy and The Spanish
Navy (though Jane's Fighting Ships, 1898- to present and Conway's
All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905 remain the basic sources in any
format), period ship illustrations (reproduced period paintings and colorized
lithographs for both navies), a list of the officers & crew of the "Maine",
a virtual tour of Dewey's flagship, the "USS Olympia", U.S.
& Spanish army orders of battle, weapon profiles, a few capsule unit histories
(not much on NYS troops), some biographical sketches and some first-hand reports
and accounts, genealogical material (including how to research a veteran of the
war, veterans burial places, by state), material on yellow-journalism, sketches (highlighting Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and James Creelman), cartoons, music of the war and era, centennial events and exhibits,
reenactment groups and their activities, "Rough Riding Links"
(under 6 headings: General, Cuba, Philippines, People, Ships, and
Other), bibliographies, material on the war's causes, battles, medical & sanitary
aspects, and legacy. There is also a What's New.... With over
10,000,000 hits over the years, this has proven an enduring site and source of
information on the war and its place as a turning point in U.S. and world
history.
Age of Imperialism
(Small Planet Communications. An Online History of the United States)
3 Spanish-American War sites, related clickable sections on U.S. late 19th - early 20th century U.S. interventions + gunboat diplomacy,
in the Pacific and Latin America, with ills., lesson plans, and a short bibliography.
Centennial of the War of 1898 = Centenario
de la Guerra del 1898 (Universidad de Alcalá.
Centro de Estudios Norteamericanos, un proyecto con la cooperacion de USIA)
Paired Spanish and English
versions, provide the centennial events calendar, a bibliography (which may be
viewed, by author, by section of the alphabet, or by publication year range
(to 1900, 1900-1949, 1950- , or recent works), a biographical
dictionary (containing a few key figures, and usually a curt descriptive
phrase of few words), a timeline (1895-1902), and related links/enlaces.
* Spanish-American War, 1898,
comp. & ed. by Mark H. Rothenberg (Patchogue-Medford Library.
Military History, U.S. and World [website])
Includes links to many key sites listed in this "webliography"; as well as links to U.S. and world military history sites, ancient to modern eras.
*
A War in Perspective. 1898 - 1998: Public Appeals, Memory, and the Spanish- American Conflict (New York Public Library)
* World of 1898: The Spanish-American War
(U.S. Library of Congress. Hispanic Division)
[See also related sections throughout]
-- General
*
Spanish-American War
(U.S. Army. Military History Institute. Finding
Aids. Bibliography. Subject)
Spanish-American War
*
Spanish-American War Miscellany
--Bibliographic Guides
-- Camps
*
Military Camps (Mobilization Camps, 1898; Camp Wikoff [i.e., Wykoff, Montauk, N.Y.], 1898-99)
-- Cuba
-- German-British-American Relations
*
German-American Naval Confrontation, Manila Bay, 1898
-- Guam
-- Imperialism
-- Medical Aspects
*
Bibliography: Yellow Fever / Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War: Army Medical Department...(U.S. Army Medical Dept.)
-- Naval Operations
*
Spanish-American War (Naval History Bibliog., No. 1; US Naval Historical Center)
U.S.S. Maine
-- Philippines
U.S. Seizure of the Philippines, & the Philippine-American War
-- Puerto Rico
-- U.S. Army
U.S. Army inthe War With Spain (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
-- U.S. Coast Guard Preparedness
Military Preparedness: Spanish American War [U.S. Coast Guard]
-- Wake Is.
Contents
& Camp Wykoff (Montauk, L.I., N.Y.)
General
Provides links to a multi-part chronology, to primary and secondary documents, to classified,
multi-media bibliographies, to related exhibits and websites of interest.
A good starting point, whether browsing or doing research.
Includes overview essays, links to a subject index,
selected bibliography (of Spanish-language works), illustration sources,
manuscripts, maps, personal narratives, an excellent chronology, literary
responses to the war (on both sides), selected American Memory Project
material, special presentations on Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Phillipines,
and additional Library of Congress materials. A fine general source, prime
strength of this fine site is bibliographic.
Bibliography
Historical text archive.
Military administration, campaigns, and more.
Brief segments on medical aspects of the war, punctuated with 5 clickable links,
on the intital chaos, medical improvisation, medical developments foreshawdowing
the 20th century, Walter Reed and Yellow fever, and the Dodge Commission's proposed
Army medical reforms.
Good, but not even the tip of the iceberg, in terms of what's been written.
Official reports, articles, bibliographic references, and illustrations
on all key aspects of the war.
A short, but handy 5-item specialized bibliography. Some hard-to-find items.
Biography
[See also
Bibliography
,
Medical Aspects
, and
Theodore Roosevelt...
sections and the
Spanish-American Centennial Website
]
* Cast of Characters: Birth of the U.S. War Department General Staff, 1898-1916
Civil War Generals in the Spanish-American War [See also U.S. Civil War Center site]
[see also Military Camps above]
Camp Black -- Garden City, Hempstead Plains, 1898 (LI Genealogy.com)
This assembly and training camp, intended to prepare for troops to be shipped overseas only existed for 5 months in 1898. This is a primarily photographic, with some explanatory text.
Mitchel Field in Wartime, by Bill Bleyer (Newsday. Long Island: Our Story)
[See also listings under general (above)]
* Chronology of the Spanish-American War
Chronologies may also be limited to Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines & Guam. Includes scattered links throughout the chronology.
* Spanish-American War Chronology (Spanish-American War Centennial Website)
Covers 1895-1902, with many
links, that expand its depth.
* A Message to Garcia (1899), by Elbert Hubbard (Birdsnest.com)
* How I Carried the Message to Garcia, by Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan (Foundations Magazine)
Contains a link to a short article about Elbert Hubbard, including the text of A Message to Garcia, by Hubbard, who also founded the Roycrofter school of art.
*National Spanish American War Gravesite Recording Project, by Patrick McSherry (The Spanish-American War Centennial Website)
Burial sites arranged by (clickable) U.S. State, Washington D.C., burials at sea,, those in U.S. protectorates and in other nations (Canada, Costa, Rica, Cuba, France, Mexico, Panama, Philippine Islands, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scotland). Includes brief information on the individual, named ship or unit (usually a regiment or battery) to which the individual was assigned, occasional photos, and occasional links to other information which the overall website includes. Notes: The basic format that entries take is explained on the initial page of this site. There is a very helpful & handy clickable link to the basics of Researching a Spanish Spanish-American War Veteran. This includes "...Where to Start: What to Do!", "Searchable Guide to Rosters on this Site," a link to other sites' rosters, an overview of period military abbreviations, how the Philippine war is related to its progenitor, the Spanish-American War, and more.
Military Research Room: Spanish-American War, 1898
* Spanish-American War, African-American Names...(& in what units they served)
War Service Records and Searches; (NYS Archives & Records Administration)
* War Service Records Search Request & Reply Form(NYS Archives & Records Administration
Tampa in the Spanish American War (Florida History Internet Project)
Tampa was the embarkation port for main U.S. invasion fleet that sailed for Cuba
William McKinley and the Spanish American War
* Navy Medal of Honor: Spanish-American War, 1898[complete list, US Navy only]
Spanish American War Medal of Honor
* Spanish-American War Medal of Honor Winners[U.S. Center of Military History]
[See also Bibliography section.]
*
Major Walter Reed, Medical Corps, U.S. Army(Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Online Visitors Center)
[see also Camp Black above]
Spanish-American War Camps, 1898-99, comp. by Fred Greguras (RootsWeb.com.
NE Gen Web Project. Spanish-American War)
A quick
overview of military camps in the U.S., during the war. Includes clickable
cross-references, and the bottom of the site links to a general index of camps,
sources, and overview material. An interesting site.
Military Camps
Motion Pictures
*
The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures, 1898-1901
* Music of the Spanish-American War Era
[See also General , Bibliography and Medal of Honor sections and the Spanish-American War Centennial Website]
-- General
*
[Annual] Report of the Secretary of the Navy, 1898 [Washington, DC: GPO, 1898]
Full-text of the U.S. Navy high command's version of the naval war at war's-end
* Online Library of Selected Images -- EVENTS -- Spanish-American War
* Spanish-American War(FAQ, U.S. Naval Historical Center)
-- Manila Bay, Battle of, 1898
* Battle of Manila Bay, 1 May 1898
Shipwreck photos, paintings & lithographs of the battle, biographical sketches of commanders, memorials, two pages of log entries from the warship USS Boston, and
see this link, for a color painting of the battle.
-- Puerto Rico, Invasion of, 1898
1898: La Guerra Hispano Americana en Puerto Rico (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras)
Agenda, Bibliografia, Libros, Articulos, Extra de 98, Enlace, Noticias, y mas...
-- Santiago Bay, Battle of, 1898
*Battle of Santiago: Spanish Wrecks After the Battle[photographic]
* Destruction of the U.S.S. Maine (FAQ, U.S. Naval Historical Center)
Casualty and survivor lists, photos, links, scattered bibliographic references in text
* Remember the Maine (U.S. Smithsonian Institution)
U.S.S. Maine and 1898
* RLIN AMC Search Form
[See also Bibliography section]
Philippine-American War (1899-1902) [Canada. National Defence Dept. Canadian Forces College]
Contains a variety of good historical links. Interesting for its period literary links to Mark Twain on the Philippines (the ex-Confederate took an anti-imperial stand) and "The white man's burden" and its critics (Rudyard Kipling's urging of the U.S. to take up the cause of empire, as a bigoted mandate). There are links to photographs, a personal narrative, to Sentenaryo / Centennial (below), to sites from the Filipino and American perspectives, as well as to the general history and background of the war, as well as to the the CFC's Spanish-American War site (see General section, above).
*
Philippine-American War of 1899-1902
Noticias relacionadas con el Centenario (1898 La Guera Hispano Americana en Puerto Rico)
Contains a number of primarily Spanish-language links to 3 main sites:
(a) Ateneo Puertorriqueno: Programa de actividades de la comision del 98,
(b) U P R, Rio Piedras: Comite del Centenario de 1898: Programa de Actividades, and
(c) Comision del Centenario del Gobierno de Puerto Rico: Programa de Actividades. There is also clickable plaque commemorating the American landing place, la tarja / piedra de Guanica.
Presidential Items: Theodore Roosevelt (U. of South Florida, Tampa Campus Library)
(University of South Florida. Tampa Campus Library)
* The Rough Riders, by Theodore
Roosevelt [by the new NYS Governor, 1899, full text]
Classic account. Usually criticized as having overlooked the rest of the Army and Navy's role in the U.S. victory in Cuba.
*
Theodore Roosevelt Association
This searchable site includes links to the full text of many of this famous Long Islander's key writing and speeches, to his naveal and land-based activities before and during the Spanish-American War, to his
very posthumous receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor (1998), to his earlier and later life, including his presidency and presidential library (at Harvard University), the origin of the Teddy bear, T.R.-oriented travel, and
many interesting and useful links.
* Theodore Roosevelt Papers at the Library of Congress, 1759-1919
Theodore Roosevelt Picture Gallery
* Theodore Roosevelt: Selected Works(full-text, New Bartleby Library)
Life of Theodore Roosevelt Association
Includes biographies, quotes,
stories, myths, legends, trivia, library collections, places to visit,
bibliography, a chronology, works by and
about Roosevelt, including links to The Rough Riders, Hunting the
Grisly, With Roosevelt in Africa (the latter by T.R., Jr.),
and other books and dealers, and T.R. Association (mission statement,
general information, membership, accomplishments, events and activities,
current and retrospective journal articles, Officer Biographies, products).
TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (PBS, The American
Experience)
Program description, biographies, screen
saver, links, TR Timeline, Legacy, RealAudio Interviews, Bibliography,
TR Teacher's Guide.
Baseball and the Spanish-American War, by Harrington E. Crissey
A number of historical entries bear on the
Spanish American War.
Site contains:
U.S. Adjutant General's Office's Statistical Exhibit of
Volunteer Forces Called into Service During the War with Spain;
With Losses from All Causes.
* The U.S. Army in
the War with Spain (U.S. Army. Center for Military
History)
Contains official reports and accounts including
the text of the declaration of war, Troop B in the Puerto Rican Campaign,
extracts of the Secretary of War's annual report, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's report;
an account of Gen. John Pershing in the War; art; images; bibliography;
casualties; Buffalo Soldiers at San Juan Hill; the Army Nurse Corps; and more.
Still Sorting Out the Press Role in Spanish American War,
by Rick Henry (Freedom Forum)
N.Y.S. Historical Documents Inventory (HDI)[and Other U.S. Archival Inventories]
Recently revised and improved, and quirky to use. Try entering, e.g., "Spanish-American War" or "Rough Riders" as subjects
New York (State) Participation
Participation
Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
Puerto Rico, Invasion of, 1898
Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders [1st U.S. Vol. Cavalry Regiment], & Camp Wykoff or Wickoff (Montauk, L.I., N.Y.)
Sports Aspects
Statistical Aspects
U. S. Army
Yellow Journalism
