Spanish American War

History is often remembered through monuments, textbooks, and headlines—but just as often, it’s hidden in attics, whispered through letters, or buried beneath silence. Big Red One, book 3, Spain and the Philippines, the new historical novel by Rowan Drake, tears open one of the least-discussed chapters in American military history—the …

The Battle of San Juan Hill, fought on July 1, 1898, was the climactic land engagement of the Spanish–American War and one of the most defining moments in the emergence of the United States as a major military and imperial power. Taking place on the island of Cuba, then a …