It's the war that makes this country," Taina Caragol, the NPG's curator of painting and sculpture and Latino art and ... map of Puerto Rico, dated to July 18, 1898, the day of the US's invasion.

and Spain granted Puerto Rico self-government in 1897. Just months later, however, the United States invaded the island during the 1898 Spanish-American War as part of a broader effort to push ...