USA

Once seen as doing too little to avert the depression and characterised as ‘Silent Cal’, the reputation of US President Calvin Coolidge is changing.

William Rubinstein looks at a turning point in America’s national sport.

The 14th President was inaugurated on March 4th, 1853.

The man who gave his name to the notorious killing machine died on February 26th, 1903

James I. Robertson, Jr. looks at the man behind the legendary Confederate hero.

Richard Carwardine describes the new library dedicated to Abraham Lincoln.

Mark Weisenmiller explains how, forty years ago, the ‘Sunshine State’ played a pivotal role in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

David Ellwood argues that the attempts of British politicians to copy an American ‘role model’ are likely to fail.

The great majority of women's lives were changed by the American Revolution: they were increasingly drawn into the political debate – as household producers and consumers, and as wives and mothers.