This book makes the case that Theodore Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and Joseph Wheeler, with help from Stephen Crane and Richard Harding Davis, brought about the Spanish-American War. While ...

Meanwhile, troops stationed away from the fighting also faced danger. When the Spanish-American War was declared, thousands of U.S. volunteers entered training camps in the southeastern United States.

Per the history books, the war began in April 1898 with the sinking of the USS Maine in Cuba, and lasted just about eight months. The Spanish–American War brought an end to almost four centuries ...