On his return from Cuba, Theodore Roosevelt ran successfully for governor of New York in the election of 1898, and two years later was tapped at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia ...
At 9:40pm on February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded ... William Randolph Hearst and his New York Journal offered a $50,000 award for the "detection of the Perpetrator of the ...