The first recorded translation of the U.S. anthem, into German, was done by schoolteacher, choir director and future New ...

The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States ...

Mafalda,” the comic strip in which she appeared, was published in Argentina from 1964 to 1973, and remained a cultural ...

While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in 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 ...

In August 1936, after a failed coup against the Second Spanish Republic, Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces seized the city of Badajoz in the western region of Extremadura. The siege was swift, ...

He is best known for the Liberation Trilogy, which was a history of the American role in the liberation of Europe during World War II. He has recently completed “The Fate of the Day: The War for ...

In “World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age,” Mr. Kinder, a professor of history at Oklahoma State University, chronicles the devastating effect ...

The war. Per the history books, the war began in April 1898 with the sinking of the USS Maine in Cuba, and lasted just about eight months. The Spanish–American War brought an end to almost four ...

Book served during the Spanish-American War, May 21-Oct. 14, 1898, as a temporary ensign in the New York Naval Militia, a precursor of the Navy Reserve.

This photo shows soldiers from the 3rd Illinois, which included local men, waiting for orders to embark in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. (Public domain image) Military action in the ...