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Wrights and Wrongs

David Jordan recalls the career of the man Brazilians claim to have been the true pioneer of powered heavier-than-air flight.

The Gadsden Purchase

The treaty to bring parts of present-day Arizona and New Mexico into the United States was signed on December 30th, 1853.

Attlee and Truman

Jerry Brookshire shows that the ‘special relationship’ in 1945-51 was in safe, and curiously similar, hands.

Kiss me, Horatio

Margarette Lincoln and Colin White debate the significance of a recently discovered cache of letters from Frances Nelson to her husband’s prize agent written at the time of the collapse of her marriage to Britain’s greatest naval hero.