On this day in history, April 20, 1898, President William McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain. The declaration requested by the 25th U.S. president was in response to an ongoing ...

MADRID — Sony Pictures Spain has acquired all Spanish distribution rights to real-event-based adventure pic “1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines,” produced by Spain’s Enrique Cerezo and ...

In April 1898, months of tension between the United States and Cuba climaxed into war. After the destruction of the U.S.S. Maine and the Naval Court of Inquiry's implication of Spain, pro-war ...

The "dying" of a nation is a tragic sight. The dying of Spain, the discoverer and once the owner of the greater part of the Western Hemisphere, her death throes upon the very spot where Columbus ...

point out that the year 1898 is a pivotal moment — with a war against Spain and the annexation of Hawaii — yet also part of a longer timeline of territorial aggression, displacement and genocide.

territories which rendered Spain the preponderating power in the civilized world. Besides his ancestral dominions in the Peninsula, to which, in 1580, he added Portugal, Philip was master of the ...

In this state Europe lingered for many centuries; in this state Spain still lingers. . . . Content with what has been bequeathed, they [the Spaniards] are excluded from that great European ...

Giant headlines trumpet the U.S. declaration of war against Spain on the front page of William Randolph Hearsts New York Journal on April 25, 1898. Photograph by Granger/Album The story has been ...

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The sinking of the Maine, which had been in Havana since February 15, 1898, on an official observation visit, was a climax in pre-war tension between the United States and Spain. In the American ...

For most of the 20th century, Spain had seemed to outsiders — and to many of its own people — a country defined by backwardness and failure. After 1898, when Spain lost its colonies of Cuba ...

But there is one Visayan hero who fought for the nation’s independence from Spain with the same vigor ... in attacking the Spaniards on April 3, 1898, in what is now known as the Battle of ...