Horatio Alger, his rags-to-riches message in popular bloom, had died the year before. Stephen Crane, who had seen more of the rags than the riches and had written Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, was ...

The outcome of the Spanish-American War left the US with a new-found degree of global power and influence. It also presented a dilemma of sorts for President William McKinley. The 1898 Treaty of Paris ...

Engines Podcast Engines of Our Ingenuity 2601: America in 1900 Episode: 2601 What did we see when we looked at the new century in 1900? Not what you might expect. Today, America in 1900.

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was by far America's deadliest, wiping out a booming city in southeast Texas. On Sept. 8, 1900, 125 years ago tonight, a Category 4 hurricane roared into Galveston ...

The year 1900 was more than just the beginning of a new century. It was a moment when the world stood between the old and the new, filled with both promise and uncertainty. People were trading horses ...

One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress enacted the most notorious immigration legislation in American history. Signed by President Calvin Coolidge, the Immigration Act of 1924 dramatically reduced ...