The New York Times Goes to War
Jonathan Marwil describes the eye-opening experience of three young Americans who went to report from the battlefields of the Italian War of Independence.
Jonathan Marwil describes the eye-opening experience of three young Americans who went to report from the battlefields of the Italian War of Independence.
David Nicholas suggests that America’s involvement in northern Europe was unwittingly shaped by a British War Office official, against the wishes of the President.
Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of the union of two branches of the Roosevelts, on March 17th, 1905
Stephen Young puts the career of the 40th American President into historical perspective.
When Teddy Roosevelt was re-elected, on November 8th, 1904, his words to his wife Edith were: 'My dear, I am no longer a political accident'.
Sami Abouzahr untangles US policy towards France at the time of the Marshall Plan and the war in Indochina.
It was not until a year after the armistice that the remaining American divisions were withdrawn from Korea, on August 18th, 1954.
The Republican Party was founded on July 6th, 1854.
Mark Rathbone looks at the role of the Supreme Court in the history of civil rights in the USA from 1865 onwards.
Peter Ling argues that Thomas Jefferson’s ideas have had dramatic continent-wide effects on the landscape and ecology of the United States.