The Spanish-American War transformed the United States from a continental power into a global empire. Discover the hidden ...

After the U.S.-backed incursion failed, Castro stationed Soviet missiles on the island in self-defense. Furious, Kennedy risked nuclear war to remove them. Revealingly, he worried that the missiles ...

A new museum and library honors America’s 26th president—and it’s right next to the national park named for him.

Leaders ease division not by splitting the difference but by giving respect to all, even across old, deep divides. Capitol Hill was similarly divided. Democrats elected to Congress dozens of former ...

Great powers have often used smaller conflicts as test beds for new weapon systems, and also as dumping grounds for obsolete ...

How a captured Spanish gunboat from the Battle of Manila Bay ended up on the Mississippi, drawing curious crowds when it ...

On Tuesday, a World War II veteran was finally brought home.

A World War II veteran who died in a prisoner-of-war camp was finally laid to rest 84 years later at Fort Smith National ...

The Spanish civil war lasted from 1936 to 1939, and led to the repressive Francisco Franco dictatorship, which lasted until 1975. Today, 90 years after the war broke out, it remains a traumatic, ...

President Trump, who promised to “end wars,” not start them, may have fallen into a familiar presidential trap. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger, based in Berlin, writes about European and Middle ...

Prince William has "no plans" to end his feud with estranged brother Harry after avoiding the Duke on his U.K. return, according to a royal expert. Kinsey Schofield believes William "understands" why ...