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Abstract
Willard D. Straight – architect, diplomat, photographer, publisher, sketcher, and writer – arrived in Korea in 1904 as a correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War, and became the US vice consul in Seoul in 1905. By utilizing a number of images from the Willard Dickerman Straight Papers of Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, and by referring to other relevant sources of/about Straight, this essay presents a textual analysis and comprehensive visual reading about the country which Straight observed in a very crucial transition period in global history. It provides a glimpse at the perspective of an early twentieth-century American diplomat, eyewitness, photographer, and writer on the cultural, industrial, and technological transformations that Korea experienced in the early 1900s as a consequence of its interaction with major world powers.

The swift and profound transformations in technology and industry that
the United States began to experience in the late 1800s manifested themselves in
school textbooks, which presented different patterns of race, ethnicity, and otherness.
They also displayed concepts like national identity, exceptionalism, and the
superiority of Euro-American civilization. This article aims to demonstrate, via an
analysis of two textbooks, how world geography was taught to children in primary
schools in nineteenth century America. It shows that the development of American
identity coincided with the emergence of the realm of the "other," that is, with the
intensification of racial attitudes and prejudices, some of which were to persist well
into the twentieth century.

AbstractThe second half of the nineteenth century was a significant era for both the United States and the Kingdom of Italy during which both countries commenced to seek new ways of expansion. The United States, which was economically much stronger and technologically more developed, declared its rising hegemony by the end of the nineteenth century. Italy, which lacked the economic and social resources that the United States possessed, strived to become a colonial power until the first decades of the twentieth century. This review of some of the Italian primary sources about the Spanish-American War clarifies noteworthy aspects of imperialism–both American and Italian–within that global context.

Conflicts over citizenship and military service became a central issue in Italian-American rela tions in the early twentieth century. The United States and Italy founded their concepts of citizenship on two different bases, jus soli and jus sanguinis. As a consequence of this differ ence and the swelling number of Italian immigrants naturalized in America, the two govern ments' policies about naturalization and military service collided until 1918. The Italian gov ernment's policy put Italian Americans' loyalty to the United States in jeopardy, especially for men who wished to return to Italy for business or educational purposes. Thus, the study of Italian Americans' experiences in the context of the policies of both countries illustrates a key aspect of the relationship between the United States and Italy, both in terms of social experience and public policy.