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

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

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 ...

Apart from Argentina, I had an apartment, a salvation office, that’s what it was called, in the city of Bern, Switzerland.

An audacious Allied plan in 1944 had the potential to swiftly end the war in Europe. German forces got advance warning from ...

Doug Hegdahl, the subject of Marc Leepson’s “The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in ...

Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor ... a Nigerian American family in Florida experiences aftershocks from their father’s trauma during the Biafran War. This sweeping novel about ...

University of Sussex Centre for American Studies, University of Westminster, The Global Biography Working Group, and the Women's History Network. Sergey Radchenko will discuss his new magisterial book ...

Only 60 villagers remain in the Spanish town of Libros. The town's name translates to the word “books” in English, and now, ...