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 ...

When she became a columnist for the Toronto Daily Mail in 1889, she distinguished herself as the first woman to head a section of a Canadian newspaper ... During the Spanish-American War of 1898, the ...

On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...

“Guam: The Battle for an American Island in World War II,” is No. 8 on James Hallas’ well-regarded list of titles covering ...

The U.S. initially acquired the rights to build and operate the Panama Canal in 1903 through the Hay–Bunau–Varilla Treaty ...

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 ...