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

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

“Guam: The Battle for an American Island in World War II,” is No. 8 on James Hallas’ well-regarded list of titles covering ...

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

In 1904, two Americans boarded the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II and set off for Africa. One was Kent J. Loomis, brother to the ...

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 ...