The United States emerged in the last third of the nineteenth century as an industrial powerhouse, producing goods that then circulated around the world. People in distant countries used American-made clothes, shoes, textiles,...
In the summer of 1876, two dramatically different places captured the American nation’s attention. As the summer began, fairgoers in Philadelphia teemed into the Centennial Exhibition held to commemorate...
Before learning of Commodore George Dewey’s destruction of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay on the morning of May 1, 1898, few...
Between 1877 and 1920, the United States’ relationship with the Caribbean region underwent a...
By 1899, the United States had become a world power. It was not only the world’s greatest industrial nation, but in the war with...
With Theodore Roosevelt as his running mate, William McKinley again beat out William Jennings Bryan to win re-election to the presidency.
The debate over America’s global role intensified when Cubans began to fight for their independence from Spain in 1895. Americans were sympathetic to Cuba’s struggle for independence, but were divided about how to help. President William McKinley was deeply ambivalent about war against Spain. Ultimately, however, the pressure of public opinion forced McKinley into the war that made the United States an international power. Newspaper publishers like William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer worked up war fever among the public with reports...
In the presidential election of 1896, Republican William McKinley defeated populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan to win the executive office.
