<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 U.S. to assume colonial control of that country . The poem was published in The New York Sun on 10 February 1899 . </P>
what was another name for the white mans burden
The United States and the Philippine Islands