USA

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.

Brian Dooley assesses the incident which brought the world perilously close to nuclear war.

Two new works combining essays on America

Highbrow or lowbrow? James Gilbert looks at the competing visions of American civilisation on offer at Chicago's fin de siécle Exposition of 1893.

Nicholas James audits the societies and civilisations decimated by the arrival of Europeans - and tells how, against the odds, elements from them have survived.

Money makes the world go round - in Lyndon Johnson's case the Yankee dollar was seen as a means of buttressing Britain's new mid-60s Labour government as an ally of the US east of Suez and relieving pressure on its other commitments. Diane Kunz looks at how the connections were made.