Examines the causes behind the sinking of the battleship Maine and the start of the Spanish-American War.

On February 15, 1898, the Maine blew up in Havana harbor. The pride of the U.S. Navy, this modern battleship was technologically unsurpassed anywhere in the wor

This book describes and evaluates the turn-of-the-century foray by the U.S. into imperialism. It describes our conflict with Spain. over the sinking of the batt

Based on a pocket diary from the Spanish-American War, this tough-as-nails 1899 memoir abounds in patriotic valor and launched the future President into the Ame