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A celebrated image of the first Thanksgiving presents an idealised view of a troubled relationship.

The legacy of Marie Skłodowska Curie, the world's most famous female physicist, is assured, but in her lifetime, she was a controversial figure.

Faced with an extortionate rise in the price of kosher meat, Jewish women in New York’s Lower East Side employed protest tactics borrowed from the radical political movements that prospered in their neighbourhood. 

The deal to buy Alaska from Russia was signed on 30 March 1867.

This panoramic study of Native North American history has remarkable honesty and scope.

In the absence of a European democratic model, the Founding Fathers turned to the apparently perfect state of the Iroquois Five Nations as a template for a federal United States, combining the best of both worlds.

The decree that led to the internment of Japanese-Americans was passed on 19 February 1942.

The dead, white, male canon has not merely stifled African-American history so much as smothered it. One author has spent her career grappling with the problem of America’s whitewashed past, writes Alexander Lee.

When Joe Biden said ‘God save the Queen’, was he heralding the end of the republic?

The frontiersman and showman died on January 10, 1917.