USA

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. 

A creature, part human, part machine – literature’s first true cyborg – was born of a desire to end the tragedy and waste of the Great War.

The white supremacist group was founded on December 24th, 1865.

Britain’s American colonies were widely thought to be peopled by miscreants and ‘desperate villains’. Rachel Christian describes the reality for those who found a new life across the Atlantic.

In no country is Magna Carta held in greater reverence than in the United States, playing a crucial role in founding the republic’s political and legal system.