USA

Women, non-importation agreements and spinning bees in the American Revolution.

With every major anniversary, our perspective on the voyage of the Mayflower changes. This year’s 400th will address the legacy of colonialism.

23 years before the Mayflower, the first pilgrim settlers to America tried, and failed, to settle in Newfoundland.

Europeans did not introduce slavery to North America – although they did change the way it was practised.

Finding the grit in Brooklyn's gentrification.

Science and superstition collided when an apocalypse was predicted to strike the United States in December 1919.

Mark Twain painted an evocative vision of the Mississippi River, but he didn’t tell the whole story.

1964 was the first time Indians were mentioned in a State of the Union address, not as belligerent enemies or a 'problem'.

How the Nazi persecution of Jews shaped the African-American freedom struggle.

The role of women in the Ku Klux Klan is often neglected, but they were key players at all levels.