Godfrey Hodgson tells the colourful story of Jane McManus, political journalist, land speculator, pioneer settler in Texas and propagandist who believed that the United States had a ‘manifest destiny’ to rule Mexico and the Caribbean.
Between February 13th and 15th, 1945, British and American bombers dropped nearly 4,000 tonnes of bombs on the refugee-crammed city of Dresden. David Spark relates how an officer at the British Air Ministry tried to get the raids called off.
The Russian ruler died of pneumonia on March 2nd, 1855.
Peter Furtado announces the winners of the 2005 Longman-History Today Awards.
Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of the union of two branches of the Roosevelts, on March 17th, 1905
James Barker on ‘Bomber’ Harris, the RAF’s wartime bombing campaign of Germany, and propaganda.
Tim Benson, founder of the Political Cartoon Society, introduces his ten favourite cartoons published in Britain.
David Anderson looks at the contentious issues raised as Kenya comes to terms with the colonial past.
Winston Churchill wrote history with an eye to his eventual place in it, David Reynolds tells us. His idea of history also inspired his making of it.
In his latest article about today’s historians, Daniel Snowman meets the creator of some of the finest TV history programmes, including Auschwitz, currently being shown on BBC2.
