USA

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

James I. Robertson, Jr. looks at the man behind the legendary Confederate hero.

Richard Carwardine describes the new library dedicated to Abraham Lincoln.

Mark Weisenmiller explains how, forty years ago, the ‘Sunshine State’ played a pivotal role in the Cuban Missile Crisis.