Santiago, Cuba—In America's tortured history of race, the shameful event that occurred between Cubans and Americans in this grand old, if faded, city over a century ago is an overlooked chapter that ...

Key point: The defeat of a continental European power, Spain, was a major military accomplishment. The end of the Second World War is often considered the defining moment when the United States became ...

In the fall of 1896, Filipino nationalists revolted against the Spanish rule that had controlled the Philippines since the sixteenth century. Led by Emilio Aguinaldo (1869-1964), the 1896 revolt ...

Theodore Roosevelt, center, with members of the Rough Riders in Cuba during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Roosevelt thought that such wars kept a nation strong. Dennis Drabelle is a former ...

Educators are encouraged to use the film CRUCIBLE OF EMPIRE: THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR to complement their lessons in history, journalism, government, and political science classrooms. The ...

Before writing his new book, The War Lovers, Evan Thomas, the assistant managing editor of Newsweek magazine, spent three years researching an event a century removed from his day job: the 1898 ...

"Take up the White Man's burden--The savage wars of peace--Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought, Watch sloth and heathen ...

How Teddy Roosevelt and the Spanish-American War set the course for future conflicts. By Clay Risen Mr. Risen is the author of “The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of ...

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. Clevelanders were active, enthusiastic supporters of U.S. foreign policy as practiced by Ohioans Pres. Wm. McKinley, Secretary of State Wm. R. Day, and his successor, JOHN HAY.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! American History TV visited the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History’s exhibit on the Spanish American war to learn about the conflict and ...