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Two Great Nations: 1815-50

During the first half of the nineteenth century, as Tocqueville perceptively remarked, Russia and the United States had grown to nationhood almost unnoticed. ‘The world learned of their existence and their greatness at almost the same time’. By Paul Dukes.

Huey Long: The Louisiana Kingfish

As Governor and Senator, Huey Long, established a radical dictatorship in his native Louisiana; Peter J. King writes how, at the time of his death, Long was nourishing nation-wide ambitions.

LaFayette Goes to America

In the spring of 1777, writes Arnold Whitridge, an ardent young French nobleman set sail from Bordeaux to avenge himself against Britain.

The Porteous Riot, 1736

H.T. Dickinson & Kenneth Logue describe the events of a Scottish protest against the Act of Union with England.

The Siege of Toulon, 1793

At Toulon, writes Stephen Usherwood, the Royal Navy first became deeply involved in the affairs of the French Revolution.