American Decades
Political Cartoons Critical of U.S. Imperialism
"The Powers Celebrating the Fall of Pekin;" "Performing His Duty;" "Alligator Bait"
Political cartoons
Date: August 1901; January 1902; January 1909
Source: Mayfield, R.B. "The Powers Celebrating the Fall of Pekin." The Bookman, August 1901.; "Performing His Duty." Brooklyn Eagle, January 1902.; "Alligator Bait." Detroit Journal, January 1909. Available online at http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/us_000600.html; http://www.boondocksnet.com/galleryus_020100a.html; http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/us_090100a.html; website home page: Zwick, Jim, ed. Political Cartoons and Cartoonists.
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1900's Media Primary Sources
- "Lynch Law in America"
- News Coverage of Natural Disasters
- "'Tabloid Journalism': Its Causes and Effects"
- Political Cartoons Critical of U.S. Imperialism
- Did the New York Journal Kill President McKinley?
- Our National Parks
- "American Progress in Habana"
- The Great Train Robbery
- "The College of Journalism"
- The Shame of the Cities
- "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces"
- "The Man with the Muck Rake"
- The Outlook and the Civil Rights Movement
- The Jungle
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
