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

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Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

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

Ordinary Gazans, along with officials from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, are determined to continue defending their ...

I was driving through Central Florida on U.S. 301, so I just HAD to stop at the Orange Shop in Citra. It was as if my car was ...

As President Trump announces tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on Saturday night, we look at how those countries might respond.

President Donald Trump has refused to rule out military coercion to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, and he suggested ...

President Trump recently instituted new tariffs on two allies and one adversary: 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% ...

President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...