On the night of February 15, 1898 at 9:40 p.m. the United States battleship U.S.S. Maine sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba taking 266 crewmen with her. Only 60 survived. When the Maine was blown up ...
Editor’s Note: Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the senior associate dean for leadership studies and Lester Crown professor of leadership practice at the Yale School of Management at Yale University. Steven Tian ...
Americans were galvanized into action by the call "Remember the Maine, to h--- with Spain!" As usual, then the government had to figure out how to pay for the war. One of the revenue measures was a ...
Several years ago, I was summoned to the office of a member of Congress to brief him on Venezuela. The honorable gentleman–I had never met him before–turned out to resemble a congressman as depicted ...
And this right shall never be questioned? Well. That seems to assume a lot. But the wording isn't surprising in a state such as Maine. Arkansas is more similar to Maine than you might realize. We ...
It’s 1898 again and just a few days before the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor. That event triggered the Spanish American War. Or we might be living in the last few hours of the final ...
In terms of rallying cries, perhaps only "Remember the Alamo!" is more engrained in our historic consciousness than is the cry "Remember the Maine!," which became a national call to arms in the wake ...
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