The Spanish American War

Media Representations:Political Cartoons, Headlines

and Sheet Music

The Cuban Melodrama: The Noble Hero to the Heavy Villain

(June 3, 1896)

How Some Apprehensive People Picture Uncle Sam After the War,

Detroit News (1898)

Miss CUBA receives an invitation.

Miss COLUMBIA (to her fair neighbor):

Won’t you join the stars and be my forty-

sixth?

Chicago Record Herald (1901)

18961901

After the First Mile. Cleveland Leader (1903)

Uncle Sam to Porto Rico:

“And to think, that bad boy came near being your brother!”

Chicago Inter Ocean (1905)

1903 1906

New York Journal, February 1898

Headline from April 25, 1898

New York Journal

Headline from May, 1898

New York Journal

New York Journal, February 1899

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