"President William McKinley" by Francisco Oller y Cestero, oil on canvas, 1898. Collection of Dr. Eduardo Pérez and family. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced “1898: U.S.

Editor's note: This story has been updated to include a statement from the John Locke Foundation. For decades, generations even, it was almost like Wilmington's 1898 coup and massacre never happened.

New Hanover County Schools recently announced it will include the 1898 massacre in its fourth-grade social studies curriculum. That means the insurrection that killed as many as 300 Black ...

Spain winds up 2016 with '1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines,' a big-budget take on the tragic, traumatic last stand of the Empire, played out in the jungles of the Philippines. By Jonathan Holland ...

In 1898, a white supremacist mob attacked the thriving Black community of Wilmington. They burned down the Black-owned local newspaper office, overthrew the local government and murdered dozens of ...

One hundred and one years ago, the build-up to the annual Bates-Bowdoin football game had disputes and divided loyalties — classic trappings of a historic rivalry. And, for Bates fans, the 1898 game ...

Speech by Alfred Moore Waddell: Men, the crisis is upon us. You must do your duty. This city, county, and state shall be rid of negro domination once and forever. You are the sons of noble ancestry.

Before writing his new book, The War Lovers, Evan Thomas, the assistant managing editor of Newsweek magazine, spent three years researching an event a century removed from his day job: the 1898 ...