Deseret News archives: Treaty was signed to end Spanish-American War. What it meant for Utahns
On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.
Washington Monthly1d
Spanish-American War
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Millions of Native people were enslaved in the Americas. Their story waits to be told.
The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...
Mises Institute9d
William McKinley: Prostitute of Protectionism
Protectionist tariff taxes are nothing more than a price-fixing conspiracy orchestrated by the state that enriches a ...
The Best Classic Books to Have on Your Bookshelf
From the Brontë sisters to Kurt Vonnegut to Zora Neale Hurston, these are the best classic books to add to your TBR this year ...
Wall Street Journal15d
America’s Fraught, Sometimes Deadly, History With the Panama Canal
President Trump wants Panama to return its namesake canal to the U.S. Panama’s birth as a nation is directly linked to the U.S.’s coming of age as a young imperial power after its victory in ...
The Gulf of Mexico’s long history of colonization and varying names
Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.
National Geographic news22d
There’s a true story behind American Primeval—and it’s just as grisly
The wagon train party was attacked by Mormon militias at Mountain Meadows, a rest stop on the Old Spanish Trail in the ... and Texas after the Mexican-American War. But though LDS members ...
The Bulwark14h
The Poetry of Bombs and Trenches and Mustard Gas
Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...
Are Americans living through another Gilded Age? Historians say the answer is complicated
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 ...
The Times of Israel4d
The Nazis in Latin America (Part I)
Apart from Argentina, I had an apartment, a salvation office, that’s what it was called, in the city of Bern, Switzerland.