USA

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.

David Lowenthal explores natural history enthusiasms among Victorian Britons and Americans, and finds an explanation for their differing approaches to conservation.

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

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

Once seen as doing too little to avert the depression and characterised as ‘Silent Cal’, the reputation of US President Calvin Coolidge is changing.

William Rubinstein looks at a turning point in America’s national sport.

The 14th President was inaugurated on March 4th, 1853.

The man who gave his name to the notorious killing machine died on February 26th, 1903