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

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

A few hours later, he signed an executive order that praised how the 25th president “heroically led our nation to victory in the Spanish-American War” — not a conflict most modern presidents ...

President William McKinley and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt ... empire into a globe-bestriding one via the Spanish-American War. McKinley was initially ambivalent about entry into the ...

The fact is that Trump is not the first, nor likely last, American political leader to covet Canada. Former U.S. president ...

Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump outlined in one of his many executive orders a mission to celebrate American greatness and to recognize those who have made contributions ...

As more settlers and prospectors headed west following the American Civil War, it became apparent ... some of the confusion. President Theodore Roosevelt took it further in 1906, making the ...

Jim Wadsworth volunteered as a private in the Volunteer Army during the Spanish-American War. Elected to the New York House of Representatives, Wadsworth was elected speaker with the support of ...