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UNITED STATES MILITARY HISTORY:
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898
Causes and Diplomacy
Coletta, Paolo. "Bryan, McKinley and the Treaty of Paris." Pacific Historical Review, (1957), pp. 131-146.
Einstein, Lewis. "British Diplomacy in the Spanish-American War." Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 76 (1964), pp. 30-54.
Fry, Joseph A. "Essay Review: William McKinley and the Coming of the Spanish-American War: A Study of the Besmirching and Redemption of an Historical Image." Diplomatic History, (Winter 1979), pp. 77-97.
García Barrón, Carlos. "Enrique Dupuy de Lôme and the Spanish American War." Americas, 36 (July 1979), pp. 39-58.
Gibson, Claud L. "The Hague Peace Conference of 1899." Military Review, 56 (January 1976), pp. 79-88.
Gilmore, N. Ray. "Mexico and The Spanish-American War." Hispanic American Historical Review, 43 (November 1963), pp. 511-525.
Goltschall, Terrell D. "Germany and the Spanish-American War: A Case Study of Navalism and Imperialism, 1898." Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington State University, 1981.
Gould, Lewis L. "Chocolate Eclair or Mandarin Manipulator? William McKinley, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippines: A Review Essay." Ohio History, 94 (Summer-Autumn 1985), pp. 182-187.
-----. "The Reick Telegram and the Spanish-American War: A Reappraisal." Diplomatic History, (Spring 1979), pp. 193-199.
Offner, John. "President McKinley's Final Attempt to Avoid War with Spain." Ohio History, 94 (Summer-Autumn 1985), pp. 125-138.
Ortega, José Varela. "Aftermath of Splendid Disaster: Spanish Politics Before and After the Spanish American War of 1898." Journal of Contemporary History, (April 1980), pp. 317-344.
Perez, Louis A., Jr. "The Meaning of the Maine: Causation and the Historiography of the Spanish-American War." Pacific Historical Review, 58 (August 1989), pp. 293-322.
Rickover, H[yman] G. How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed. Washington: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1976.
Smith, Ephraim K. "'A Question from Which We Could Not Escape': William McKinley and the Decision to Acquire the Philippine Islands." Diplomatic History, 9 (Fall 1985), pp. 363-375.