The book’s principal flaw, however, shared by most works on the Spanish-American War, is that it fails to address the role of the Cuban nationalists in bringing about the conflict, by supplying the ...

By November 1927, a small patch of land at the southern-most end of the Brunswick Mall had been set aside for a monument to the local men who served in the Spanish-American War. On this parcel ...

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. Clevelanders were active, enthusiastic supporters of U.S. foreign policy as practiced by Ohioans Pres. Wm. McKinley, Secretary of State Wm. R. Day, and his successor, JOHN ...

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

April 21, 1898 marks the beginning of the Spanish-American War. President William McKinley ordered a naval blockade of Cuba 125 years ago as diplomatic relations between the United States and ...