HIST300F: On Safari with Teddy

Teddy Roosevelt: Now this is "roughing it." (link)

HIST300F: Visiting the Philippine Exposition

Stereotypical turn-of-the-century white newsman: This Philippine exposition is the bee's knees, the cat's meow of the whole fair I tells ya!!!  (June 1, 1904 at 2:34 p.m.)

Stereotypical turn-of-the-century white newsman (following race riot between U.S. marines and Filipino scouts): This is not fun. (July 7, 1904 at 3:33 p.m.)

HIST300A: Hornaday's Zoological Nativism

Stereotypical Italian Laborer: Nothing like taking a break from bricklaying by going to the Bronx Zoo. (Sept. 5, 1905 at 3:32 p.m.)

WT Hornaday: Go away. (Sept. 5, 1905 at 3:35 p.m.)

HIST300F: Degenerating in the Tropics

After reading the first half of Hoganson and Adas's chapter on the Philippines, both authors offered us examples of how war and empire offered opportunity to American men. After considering those examples, how does Hoganson reveal the rising domestic fears that empire corrupts and causes American men to degenerate? How does Huntington's work on the tropics further reinforce this early-twentieth-century view that the tropics were a corrupting force?

HIST300A: Roosevelt Invents the Big Game Safari

Teddy Roosevelt: After three days on safari, have yet to take quinine--real American men should go into the tropics without any anti-malarial protection. I firmly believe a sound immune system is the sign of sound physical rigor and moral character.   (May 1, 1909 at 7:43 a.m.)

Teddy Roosevelt: Feeling feverish. Probably just the heat. (May 2, 1909 at 1:37 p.m.)

Teddy Roosevelt: Laying down for just a moment to regain my strength. (May 2, 1909 at 6:12 p.m.)

Teddy Roosevelt: Annnnd I vomited. (May 2, 1909 at 6:15 p.m.)