Maine: Cliff House - Location: Ogunquit - Year built: 1872 The Cliff House occupies a magnificent setting on Bald Head Cliff, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Founded in 1872 by Elsie Jane Weare, wife of a local sea captain, the hotel was constructed withplanks produced in the family sawmill...
April 21, 1898 - August 13, 1898Spanish-American War: Trial Run for Interventionismby James PerloffU.S. Secretary of State John Hay called the Spanish-American War of 1898 a “splendid little war.” Superficially, the description seemed apt. After the battleship Maine mysteriously exploded in ...