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The decree that led to the internment of Japanese-Americans was passed on 19 February 1942.

The dead, white, male canon has not merely stifled African-American history so much as smothered it. One author has spent her career grappling with the problem of America’s whitewashed past, writes Alexander Lee.

When Joe Biden said ‘God save the Queen’, was he heralding the end of the republic?

The frontiersman and showman died on January 10, 1917.

Kate Wiles on a ‘map to the stars’, designed to promote a Los Angeles neighbourhood to Hollywood’s new celebrities.

The choice of the US dollar as the international reserve currency was controversial but practical.

Following the attack of 7 December 1941, many Japanese-Americans were guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of the US government.

The contrast between Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump could hardly be more striking, but such is the continually evolving politics of the Grand Old Party.

Donald Trump has often been likened to Aaron Burr, described as ‘one of the most unprincipled men in the United States’. His isolationism, however, owes more to Thomas Jefferson.

Senator Barry Goldwater brought a new brand of Republicanism to American politics, writes Roger Hudson.