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View Article“No anecdotes are told of Elihu Root”
Some people’s lives make for good stories. In the 1870’s, the notorious “Boss” Tweed stood trial for corruption in New York City. In 1898, Teddy Roosevelt led the Rough Riders in the Battle of San Juan...
View ArticleThe Guano Islands
In the mid-nineteenth century, explorers headed out to sea, hoping to claim new islands for the United States. One seemed promising: “These islands are small, high and rocky, barren and uninviting to...
View ArticleThe “Massacre” and the Aftermath
6:00 A.M., SEPTEMBER 28, 1901 BALANGIGA, SAMAR, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS The bugler of Company C, Ninth Infantry, sounded the call for breakfast. American soldiers, unarmed, made their way to the mess hall....
View ArticleRace and the New Empire
On the eve of the Spanish-American War (1898), African Americans lived as second-class citizens. During the Jim Crow era, they lived separately from white Southerners, using facilities that were...
View ArticleAmerica
In 1773, Connecticut native John Ledyard dropped out of Dartmouth College to travel the world. From 1776 to 1780, he traversed the Pacific as a member of British explorer Captain James Cook’s crew....
View ArticleHawaii
On a standard map of the United States, Hawaii sits in the bottom left corner in a box next to Alaska. It would seem that the islands are as close to the Southwest as Cuba is to Florida. These maps...
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