American Imperialism Courses and Certifications

Visualizing Imperialism & the Philippines, 1898-1913

Read political cartoons and photographs from 1898–1913 to trace debates over US conquest and occupation of the Philippines, working with difficult visual historical sources.

• MITx Online
• 19 weeks, 1-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Visualizing Imperialism & the Philippines, 1898-1913

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Read political cartoons and photographs as primary sources to investigate the Philippine-American War, colonial rule, ethnographic photography, and imperial rhetoric of civilization and barbarism.

• edX
• 19 weeks, 1-4 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

War for the Greater Middle East

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Military historian Andrew Bacevich recounts the failed U.S. military effort over several decades to "fix" the Islamic world, explaining what went wrong and why.

• edX
• 4 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

Late nineteenth-century Britain and America: the people and the empire

Historians on both sides of the Atlantic have argued that the empire was not an issue of popular interest in late nineteenth-century Britain and the United States. In this free course, Late ...

• OpenLearn
• 4 hours
• No Longer Offered
• Free Certificate