US History Web Search: Imperialism and WWI

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Spend time reading the following Primary sources about Imperialism and WWI.  Read each of the following and answer these three questions.

  • Who wrote the reading?
  • What is its purpose?
  • Who is the intended audience?
  • When/Who originally published the work?

Imperialism

Rudyard Kipling

Black Man’s Burden by Edward Morel

World War I

Siegfried Sassoon

Wilfred Owen

John McCrae