This video explores why the United States did not annex Cuba after the Spanish-American War of 1898. Despite military victory ...

On this day in 1898, the House passed a resolution recognizing Cuba’s independence from Spain. The vote was 325-19. The House and Senate conferred for a week over the final wording before the ...

Together, Rathbone, Neely, and Reeves began embezzling money and defrauding the Cuban Postal Service in 1899. The scam worked like this: the U.S. rushed temporary stamps to Cuba in late 1898.

The Cuban Philatelic Society of America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study and collection of stamps from Cuba and other countries, meets at 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday at the South Miami ...

On this day in 1898, U.S. Marines landed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. For the next month, American troops fought a land war in Cuba that quickly led to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the Western ...

By the year 1895, Cubans revolted against the Spanish colonial rule on their land, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, fought between 1895 and 1898. At first, the United States stayed neutral ...