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

To honor the brave lives of soldiers and sailors lost in both events, Bangor’s Junior ROTC held their annual commemorative ...

Morris Michtom, a small toy store owner, put two stuffed ’teddy bears’ in his Brooklyn shop window for sale, inspired by an ...

The Piasa Bird Council of Boy Scouts of America operated an early recycling program in the mid-1940s, showcasing their ...

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

President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a law allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

I’ll furnish the war.” Hearst’s quip was apocryphal, but he and Pulitzer did, in fact, furnish a war. In 1898, the American warship USS Maine, anchored off Cuba, exploded and sank, killing 266 crew ...

All three, Trump, Mckinley and Roosevelt, stand out for advancing US interests aggressively. But McKinley appears to have ...