Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

Player: George Davis Elected: 1998 Davis' career (1890-1909) overlapped with Teddy Roosevelt's heyday: T.R.'s service with the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War, two years as ... his tombstone ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the United States and Spain in 1898, that ended Spanish colonial rule in the ...

A month after its debut, Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” continues to ignite conversations surrounding the island’s ...

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She reported that the organization’s fifth round of banners resulted in 46 banners honoring 55 local heroes who served their country between the Spanish-American War and the present day.

Historians suggest that Col. Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, who were stationed in Tampa in 1898 in preparation for the Spanish American War, possibly passed Passage Key en route to Cuba. When it was ...