A THIEF AND A MARKED DIME.; ... Feb. 4, 1898. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 4, 1898, Page 11 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

Spain winds up 2016 with '1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines,' a big-budget take on the tragic, traumatic last stand of the Empire, played out in the jungles of the Philippines.

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John Singer Sargent’s 1903 portrait of Teddy Roosevelt dominates a large gallery in the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, “1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions.”It shows ...

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