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American Imperialism in the Pacific

Instructed by Robert Holden

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Please note that graphic content may be shown.

In this presentation, attenders will be informed of the fascinating, yet largely unknown period of history of America during the end of the 19th into the 20th century.

We will examine a typical U.S. Battleship/cruiser with views of the Olympia, Admiral Dewey’s flagship during the Spanish-American War.

Attenders will also see through Mr. Holden’s power point, the state of U.S. diplomacy, largely nurtured by Presidents Mc Kinley, and later, Roosevelt after McKinley’s assassination. Actions taken by Teddy Roosevelt during this period had a lasting effect on our relationship with Japan which would bring us to war in December, 1941.

Based largely on the book, “The Imperial Cruise” by James Bradley (author of “Flags of Our Fathers”) the attenders will better understand America’s role in the Pacific BEFORE World War II.

Mr. Robert Holden is a retired Ocean City Gifted/talented teacher (ret.-2006) and retired Senior Adjunct Professor of History, teaching WC 1, WC 2, and his own created Holocaust and Genocide Studies Course at ACCC’s Cape May County campus. (ret. -2016)

He is on the board of the SJHC, the HPSUT and the Seaville Friends Meeting.

He has published several secondary history curriculum guides and two books, Upper Township and its Ten Villages and Visas to Shanghai (about the Chinese diplomat, Feng-Shan Ho who saved thousands of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust by writing them exit visas), both of which are available to check out from the library.

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