ON SEPT. 3, 1783 three American diplomats, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay, and their British counterpart, David ...

The first reason is straightforward: The Paris Agreement is a treaty. President Obama, aware that the accord would struggle to meet the two-thirds threshold required by the Constitution’s Treaty ...

The five American commissioners were still in Paris negotiating the peace treaty. They were getting tired of Spanish objections and essentially issued a take it or leave it ultimatum to the Spaniards.

After the Treaty of Paris was signed in December 1899, the treaty required ratification by at least a two thirds majority of the U.S. Senate. The debate regarding the ratification of the treaty ...

After heated debate, United States Congress approved the Treaty of Paris on February 6, 1899, by a two-thirds margin (57 to 27). The following day, President McKinley signed the treaty ...

Donald Trump would yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord for the second time if he wins the presidency again ...

Through the Treaty of Paris in 1898, Spain sold the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States for $20 million and the second colonial period began (Mulligan, 2022). The Americans offered ...

From Washington to Massachusetts, blue states are rushing to protect their policy priorities from the reach of a potential ...

The historical events that led to Haiti's independence -- and to the document found by Duke graduate student Julia Gaffield -- began taking shape a few years after the 1782 Treaty of Paris officially ...

Discussions about what the treaty should include began in January 1919. In June, delegates from 32 countries met at the Palace of Versailles near Paris to make peace after World War One - the peac ...