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

President Donald Trump has refused to rule out military coercion to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, and he suggested making Canada the 51st state.

Metal detecting at Spanish-American War camps brought us some incredible surprises! These camps, active from 1898 to 1899 and later before World War I, yielded rare finds, including a large intact ...

Here's what to know. The ratification of the Treaty of Paris stemmed from the American Revolutionary War, the first shots of which rang out almost a decade earlier, in April 1775. The colonies ...

Our journey through Iowa’s 99 counties began in January with a visit to Kossuth County in the north, which is not the only location named after Lajos Kossuth, Hungary’s freedom fighter during the ...

The Revolutionary War is over! For there to be peace, there must be a peace treaty ... Negotiations began in Paris, in April of 1782. The American negotiators were John Adams, Benjamin Franklin ...

The Spanish-American War declaration—approved in 1898 ... The Philippines were annexed on February 6, 1899, with US Senate approval of the Treaty of Paris. It was the largest US annexation outside our ...

Discussions about what the treaty should include began in January 1919. In June, delegates from 32 countries met at the Palace of Versailles near Paris ... to pay for the war. American President ...

Today, I would say, is a unique holiday. Because a religious celebration is celebrated together with an absolutely secular ...

He hailed a presidential predecessor: not Washington or Jefferson or Lincoln, but William McKinley, the tariff-loving 25th president, who engaged in the Spanish-American War, seized the ...