期刊名称：Cercles : Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone
电子版ISSN：1292-8968
出版年度：2002
期号：5
页码：31-38
出版社：Université de Rouen
摘要：Wars play a large part in forming national myths and memories, the materialof national identity. What historians say forms a part of the national memory,and often reveals some of its myths. The historiography of the Spanish-Cuban-American War is a useful case in point.People in the United States had significantly different perceptions ofthe Spanish-Cuban war from people in Cuba. The U.S. public learned of thewar in Cuba through the press and from the Cuban Junta in New York, bothof which presented highly colored and romantic pictures of the struggle. Therealities of a largely guerrilla war were played down or concealed. Thus whenthe U.S. army arrived in Cuba, its men expected to find ranks of Cuban in-fantry in formation, cavalrymen on fine horses, proper uniforms, muchdashing activity. The new arrivals were quickly disillusioned by the CubanLiberation Army. It was ragged, ill-equipped, and mostly black, at a time ofacute racism in the United States. Worse yet, it played no visible role in theBattle of San Juan Hill, the only major engagement in which the Americansfought.1
