USA

The powers of American Riflemen were underestimated by the British Government, though not, writes John Pancake, by observers in the field.

In the late seventeenth century, writes Richard Simmons, the Quakers hoped to found in Pennsylvania and elsewhere a radical Christian commonwealth.

George Woodcock describes the thrice nominated Democratic candidate for the Presidency, William Jennings Bryan, who eloquently expressed the feelings of the Western farmers at a time when the United States were first becoming a great international Power.

During the years that led up to the Anglo-American Treaty of 1842, writes Henry I. Kurtz, both countries played a dangerous game of “brinksmanship” along the Canadian border.

Trade with the English “tobacco lords”, writes William T. Brigham, brought on a private war which outlasted the American Revolution.

In 1807, writes C.E.S. Dudley, when the British were enforcing their world-wide blockade against France, a short action took place off the Virginian coast that led to violent controversy.

Andrew Johnson’s impeachers failed by one vote to win the two-thirds majority needed in the Senate.

Henry I. Kurtz describes how the generous policies of Lincoln’s successor towards the former Confederates led to impeachment proceedings against him in 1868.

Before the extension of the railways, writes Louis C. Kleber, long cattle-drives were the way of life west of the Mississippi.

Sudie Duncan Sides explores plantation life in the Southern states before the American Civil War.