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Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 18981935 <http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/ index.html>. Edited by Jim Zwick. Reviewed Jan. 5-12, 2002.
Public reaction and organized resistance to U.S. foreign policy is a rich subset of diplomatic history that is often overlooked in textbooks and teaching. Jim Zwick's extensive Web site, Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935, offers a model for exploring this topic. It introduces the first organizations that opposed U.S. territorial and economic imperialism and makes their political analysis, literature, and cultural contribution to U.S. political culture available to a wide audience.
Largely an archival collection of primary documents related to anti-imperialist movements with essays that provide historical context, the site is impressive in its breadth of material. The site brings together hundreds of examples of literature, essays, political cartoons, photographs, and advertisements from the 1890s through the 1930s. Zwick provides cogent contextual information for the...