in 1899

The White Man's Burden First published in 1899 in McClure's magazine, "The White Man's Burden" is a poem of obligation by Rudyard Kipling, rallying the Western world to go to Africa in order to save a supposedly condemned culture.

a reference to an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling inviting the United States to assume colonial control of Philippines -- to take up the 'burden of Empire' supposedly for the sake of the 'uncivilized' natives

The White Man's Burden is a reference to an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling inviting the United States to assume colonial control of Philippines -- to take up the 'burden of Empire' supposedly for the sake of the 'uncivilized' natives.

in popular newspapers like the New York Sun, New York Tribune and San Francisco Examiner (7/5/1899)

The White Man’s Burden” was published in popular newspapers like the New York Sun, New York Tribune and San Francisco Examiner (7/5/1899).

a poem called 'The White Man's Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands' (1899)

English writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), author of such adventure classics as Kim (1901), also wrote a poem called 'The White Man's Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands' (1899).

February 4, 1899

The equally well-known "White Man's Burden" (February 4, 1899) clearly expressed the attitudes toward the empire that are implied in the stories in The Day's Work (1898) and A Fleet in Being (1898).