To make the comparison complete, McKinley was backed by the titans of his day, including J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.

took possession of Guam and Puerto Rico, annexed Hawaii, and made Cuba into a protectorate. Trump seems eager to inaugurate a new era of territorial expansion and high tariffs, à la McKinley.

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

On the world stage, chocolate is as emblematic of the recent/ongoing/looming issues we’re experiencing as oil, steel or ...

When our brave soldiers go to war, it is with the full knowledge that they may one day have to give up their lives in defense ...

In the 16th century, Spain was the world’s naval power, one of the world’s oldest navies. The Spaniards, the conquistadores, defeated mighty empires like Aztec and Inca. So Lapulapu’s victory in ...

The example of Puerto Rico is reason enough to be wary of such ... Greenlanders would be unlikely to receive as a US state or protectorate. The Financial Post article observes that Greenland ...

Later on, the Salvadoran population became very alarmed when McKinley took advantage of the Cuban independence movement to start a war with Spain in 1898, which allowed him to turn Cuba into a ...