Democrats need a politician like Teddy Roosevelt, who fought corruption, was progressive, and used the bully pulpit to ...

On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...

Invade Mexico, annex Greenland, reclaim the Panama Canal. Donald Trump is ushering in a new era of American imperial ambition ...

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

There is an echo of McKinley’s spirit and Roosevelt’s strategy in the early Trump White House. For a president who said that ...

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

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

Theodore “Teddy” King Sr., 80, of Elba entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025 with his loving family by his side. He was born on Oct. 7, 1944 in Indiana Pa. to Lowry and Alice ...

President Trump’s push to take back control of the strategic waterway stokes memories of a period of U.S. imperial ambition and violence.

President Trump threatened sanctions and tariffs on Russia if its leader, President Vladimir Putin, doesn’t reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine. Trump on Wednesday wrote on Truth ...

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 ...