White Man's Burden.net

 

Poems:

The Poem that Started it All:

Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden

The Response -- Poems:

The Poor Man's Burden
(Taylor)
The Black Man's Burden (Chadwick)
The Burden of Profit (Phelps)
Beware of the Lion When He Talks Like a Man (W.P.G.)
Home Burdens of Uncle Sam (Comfort)
The Poor Man's Burden (McNeill)
Why Talk of the White Man's Burden (Grit)
The Black Man's Burden (Johnson)
The Brown Man's Burden (Labouchère)
The Real White Man's Burden (Crosby)

Prose:
The White Man's Burden (San Francisco Call editorial, 1899)
The White Man's Burden as Prophecy (1899)
The White Man's Burden (letter to the Boston Evening Transcript, 1899)
Kipling, The White Man's Burden, and Imperialism (article, external link)

Links:

Imperialism in Asia: Assumption.edu
Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism
America's History in the Making: White Man's Burden
The White Man's Burden at Wikipedia
The Best of History Websites: Early Imperialism
PBS: The Story of India

Lesson Plans:
The Age of Imperialism
White Man's Burden --Socratic Seminar