Morris Michtom, a small toy store owner, put two stuffed ’teddy bears’ in his Brooklyn shop window for sale, inspired by an ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

It was "understood to imply that the entire Western Hemisphere was an American preserve," he writes. Theodore Roosevelt ... which he led during the Spanish-American war. "Trump seems to be ...

It’s imperialism. American expansionism from its founding through the 19th century was a bloody affair—the forced removal of Native Americans, the Mexican-American war (a war of choice driven ...