On Feb. 6, 1899, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain was ratified by the U.S. Senate; the treaty ended the Spanish-American War and ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to ...

On This Day: The 1898 Treaty of Paris On December 10, 1898, Spain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris to end the Spanish-American War.

A new popup exhibit at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum examines obscure treaty that changed the world.

50 years later, peace treaty that was supposed to end Vietnam War still haunts my family My father's fellow pilots were shot down a week after the Paris Peace Accords were signed. The crash fed ...

The treaty ended the Mexican-American War and impacted the lives of peoples who suddenly found the border between the countries had crossed them.

As we celebrate our nation’s independence, many may be surprised to learn that a Revolutionary War battle took place in ...

The war in the Philippines dragged on until 1904, where we crushed an indigenous resistance that had previously been fighting the Spanish. The death toll there was well in excess of 3,000.

After the peace treaty was concluded, celebration of the nation's effort continued. A Spanish cannon, trophy of the war, was mounted on PUBLIC SQUARE. Pieces recovered from the battleship Maine were ...

The American Civil War is no exception, since there was no convenient peace treaty to lend it a conventional closing date.

Congress approved President McKinley's request for a declaration of war on April 25, 1898; yet the Spanish-American War was the culmination of decades of pressure toward U.S. expansionism.

Roosevelt, by contrast, was a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War and advocated American intervention in Latin America. Although he may have believed in peace, he was hardly a pacifist.