A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained ...

By 1895, the United States was a very different nation than it had been in 1865. The Civil War was over, the American ... about the Spanish officers. Marti (1853-1895), a Cuban émigré who ...

Yellow fever was first reported in Cuba in ... When the Spanish-American War was declared, thousands of U.S. volunteers entered training camps in the southeastern United States.