<P> `` The White Man 's Burden : The United States and the Philippine Islands '' is a 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling about the Philippine -- American War ( 1899 -- 1902 ) , which invites the United States to assume colonial control of that country . The poem was published in The New York Sun on 10 February 1899 . </P>
<P> `` The White Man 's Burden : The United States and the Philippine Islands '' is a 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling about the Philippine -- American War ( 1899 -- 1902 ) , which invites the United States to assume colonial control of that country . The poem was published in The New York Sun on 10 February 1899 . </P>
where was the white man 's burden published
where was the white man 's burden published
The New York Sun
The New York Sun