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The Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection are important conflicts in United States ... 1.7 million photos and 12.5 million manuscripts available for study through the U.S. Army ...
The month of June marks two milestones: the 250th Army birthday and the 165th anniversary of the founding of the Signal Corps. The Signal Corps was ...
In a battle for readers, two media barons sparked a war in the 1890s. As U.S.-Spain tensions soared, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst didn’t let the facts spoil a good story.
Period photographs note that even men in the same ... -century when the U.S. Army found itself engaged in a number of “Uncle Sam’s Little Wars” that included the Spanish-American War, ...
“The Mexican Suitcase” at the International Center of Photography features recently recovered images of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour.
At the turn of the 20th century, tech’s cutting edge was the stereoscope, a binocular-like device that used two photographs to give the user a sense of 3-D. Hampshire College professor Michael ...
How Teddy Roosevelt and the Spanish-American War set the course for future conflicts. By Clay Risen Mr. Risen is the author of “The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the ...
The sinking of the U.S. warship was a catalyst for the outbreak of the Spanish-American War and the U.S. officially ... “They quoted from experts offering opinions by looking at photographs, ...