On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

(Photo title "Busy Day in an Orange Grove" via Florida State ... Yet Trump has launched a ridiculous trade war with our ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

(photo credit: US National Archives and Records Administration/ Wikimedia Commons) During World War II, US-based agencies – the Unitarian Service Committee, the American Friends Service ...

The 10-acre complex is such a landmark that visitors get their pictures taken in front of the plaque honoring ... Pope also fought for his country during the Spanish-American War in an all-Black ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the United States and Spain in 1898, that ended Spanish colonial rule in the ...

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A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...

President Donald Trump has unleashed chaos by distraction around the world with a blitz of executive orders and ideas.

The American soldier and teacher, who grew up in the plains of Kansas and made his way to the hills of Cavite, lived a rich ...