USA

Wild Bill Hicock and wagon trains - familiar images of pioneer spirit, but a more complex and less triumphalist view of how the American frontier moved West is explained by Margaret Walsh.

Barbara Schreier offers a fascinating insight into how the dress, customs and attitudes of Jewish women escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe altered as part of their assimilation as Americans.

Rachel Braverman on a shocking American realist.

Elisabeth Perry explains why US women did not breakthrough in politics between the wars, despite having won the vote.

The history of the controversy over People's Park in Berkeley CA is discussed. The 1960s saw the beginnings of the health consciousness movement - natural food, exercise, relaxation.

Capturing the spirit of America - Erin Cho looks at the building blocks of American childhood and the objectives of their creator.

Peter Ling compares the impact of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on black culture in the 90s.

Peacemaker or warmonger: history has awarded the former epithet (albeit ill-fated) to Woodrow Wilson, but here Christopher Ray looks at how the President performed as head of the services in conflict and at his relationship with America’s generals

Money makes the world go around: Kathleen Burk looks at how the Yankee dollar transferred influence from the Old World to the New.

John Hartsock details the rise and fall of noble tolerance of religious freedom in 17th-century Maryland.