Sachs on USA’s Hegemonic Imperialism

School begins by Louis Dalrymple, 1866-1905, 1899 chromolithograph. Print shows Uncle Sam as a teacher, standing behind a desk in front of his new students who are labelled ‘Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, [and] Philippines’;they do not look happy to be there. At the rear of the classroom are students holding books labelled ‘California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, [and] Alaska’. At the far left, an African American boy cleans the windows, and in the background, a Native boy sits by himself, reading an upside-down book labelled ‘ABC’, an a Chinese boy stands just outside the door. A book on Uncle Sam’s desk is titled ‘U.S. First Lessons in Self-Government’. (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)