and Spain granted Puerto Rico self-government in 1897. Just months later, however, the United States invaded the island during the 1898 Spanish-American War as part of a broader effort to push ...

W.A. Shoemaker of Philadelphia, who has just returned from Puerto Rico whither he had gone in the interest of the American Association of Manufacturers and the Philadelphia Commercial Museums ...

as he grips the map of Puerto Rico, dated to July 18, 1898, the day of the US's invasion. His stance denotes the power of a man who believes himself to be charged with establishing a new order on ...