The Spanish-American conflict was a “splendid little war[1]” that marked America’s entry as an imperial power into world affairs.  Coincidentally that same splendid little war was the origin of the USS Potomac’s all-Filipino mess crew and...

Vice President Harry Truman liked to spend afternoons with a bourbon and branch at House Speaker Sam Rayburn’s “Board of Education” hideaway.   When he arrived on April 12, 1945, Rayburn told Truman to call Steve Early in the White House...