In the American press, headlines proclaimed "Spanish Treachery!" and "Destruction of the War Ship Maine Was the Work of an Enemy!" William Randolph Hearst and his New York Journal offered a $ ...

America's "splendid little war" with ... journalists like William Randolph Hearst, who in the 1890s gave inordinate attention to the suffering of Cubans at the hands of their Spanish colonizers ...

On February 9, 1898, the contents of a seized Spanish letter caused an international scandal that fueled anti-Spanish and pro-war feelings ... Journal owner William Randolph Hearst published ...

The Civil War was over, the American west had been settled ... Leading journalists like William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer took great interest in the Cuban struggle, using dramatic ...

William Randolph Hearst believed he was not reporting history but was instead creating it. By the end of the 1920s, Hearst owned newspapers in almost every major city, as well as magazines and ...

It was 1862, and the nation was at war, but the ... Today, the Hearst Castle is a major California tourist attraction. Perhaps the best-known event of William Randolph Hearst's very public life ...

Fake News and the War of 1898” focuses on the late 1890s, when newspaper moguls William Randolph Hearst and ... entered what became known as the Spanish-American War. What happened to the ...