World’s Fairs were created to launch futuristic technology and products, but ended up selling ideas and experiences. 174 ...

He has an unusual fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents — James K ... Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines during his tenure. Polk, a Democrat who served from 1845-49, added ...

In this reimagined doctrine, the West is no longer a community of shared values, but a zone of expected compliance under ...

The damage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 was so severe that 50 years later, Ronald Reagan provided a cautionary tale: "There are those in the Congress, just as there were back in the 1930s, ...

The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of 20 F-16 fighter jets to the Philippines. The announcement comes less than a week after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited Manila, where ...

Such proposals echo the Manifest Destiny ethos of the 19th century — a belief in America ... He cited President William McKinley, who annexed the Philippines and Puerto Rico, as a model ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has ...

A family’s reimagined beach house in the Philippines ... In the kitchen, a 19th-century sideboard with Japanese lacquer trays displayed above it.Credit...Allegra Martin Ward-Jackson seems ...

better known in the Philippines as “nakar.” These were very impressive and, to me, were the origins of the ornate Easter eggs created by Peter Carl Faberge for the Russian imperial family from the ...