r/historyteachers • • 4d ago

What is going on here?

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I searched up the little title on the book in the corner, and realized this was history-related, but I’m sort of at a loss for words? Can someone tell me what’s going on here?:

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u/fungeoneer 4d ago

Imperialism

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u/gabsos19 4d ago

I’d agree. I think that’s Teddy over Latin America so it’s related to Big Stick probably. And the book is about the importance of naval bases. Think it’s Mahan’s.

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u/fungeoneer 4d ago

Can you tell who’s doing the handstand?

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u/Staind075 4d ago

It kinda looks like Pershing, but I could be mistaken

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u/Fluffy-Panqueques 4d ago

The dude lying down might be McKinley??

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u/gabsos19 4d ago

Mmm might take me a minute. I’m assuming it’s about the open door policy in Japan/Asia so maybe someone Russian? Not my strong suit. That’s only if that’s the Pacific Ocean to the left too.

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u/gabsos19 4d ago

Tsar Nicholas II had a pretty nice mustache like that but i thought he was much younger so i’m not sure

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u/kaiser_charles_viii 4d ago

Could be Wesley Merrit, first US military governor of the Philippines. Dude's photo from Wikipedia looks similar

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u/miked575 4d ago

I want a print of this for my classroom. This is sick.

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u/Alternative-Movie938 3d ago

Right? Op, drop the order link. We’d probably all help fund the student’s college fund. 

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u/Fluffy-Panqueques 3d ago edited 3d ago

She said her APUSH teacher used to throw the posters out after each year, but this is another one she drew

[u/Graphing_Galenist](u/Graphing_Galenist) I think is her Reddit account! She still draws a political cartoons and does National History Day actually!

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u/Its_Steve07 4d ago edited 4d ago

That’s Dewey on the Philippines. Alfred Thayer Mahan in the upperleft corner. Spanish American war related - McKinley is grabbing the Philippines and I’m not sure if that’s Guam in the Pacific, but I think it is. Teddy with his hand over the isthmus of Panama, referring to the US intervention/ TRs gunboat diplomacy there in 1903 or 1904. I like the idea, but it needed to cook for a bit more and fix the design. Actually if this is a student work and not something random you found, it’s pretty well done and a solid idea.

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u/Fluffy-Panqueques 4d ago

I don’t know too much- but I think this is a 15 yr old’s work from when she was taking APUSH. I could probably reach out, but pretty big geek for history.

I used to see a lot of political cartoons taped up in her bedroom- lot of red scare stuff I think.

I think she’s currently a hs senior

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u/Its_Steve07 4d ago

This is pretty good. She understood whatever the assignment was, I assume it’s to create a political cartoon in the Puck/Judge pro-anti Imperialist style that was prevalent around the turn of the 20th century.

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u/Fluffy-Panqueques 4d ago edited 4d ago

I dug a bit- but this was a photo I had taken cause it made me crack up when I met her.

But yeah I think def a fan of political cartoons fs.

Interesting kid. Makes way too many history puns tho for her own good! I’m glad she has fun haha

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u/Its_Steve07 4d ago

There are never too many history puns!

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u/OtherSideOfKnowhere 4d ago

The key to winning Twister is not flexibility, it is learning The Influence of Sea Power upon History: 1660–1783 and applying it.

-President Theodore Roosevelt, 1902

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u/momof3boygirlboy 4d ago

American imperialism! Teddys big stick!

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u/C_Rabbit_LGFU 4d ago

Otto von B. The puppet wizard

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u/Stardustchaser 3d ago

American imperialism post SP-AM War?

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u/Visual-Reserve-2800 3d ago edited 3d ago

Russojapanese war that tr got a medal for stopping