Peter Ling

The release of government documents related to the Kennedy assassination will keep scholars busy for years, but will we learn anything new?

The investigation of President Kennedy’s murder was marked by serious blunders. As a result, the truth behind the assassination is unlikely to be known, says Peter Ling.

Depicted as a dangerous extremist and a threat to the civil rights movement, black activist Malcolm X was as much a beneficiary of the media as he was its victim.

The US Supreme Court looks likely to overturn the Federal law on abortion. Nicholas Hill and Peter Ling look at the political background to the legal argument.

Peter Ling argues that Thomas Jefferson’s ideas have had dramatic continent-wide effects on the landscape and ecology of the United States.

Peter Ling analyses Martin Luther King's involvement with non-violent protest in the USA. 

Peter Ling describes how the refusal of four black students to accept a lunch-counter colour bar led to the collapse of segregation in the American south.

By adulating King for his work in the Civil Rights campaigns, we have misrepresented the complexity of those struggles and ignored some of the equally challenging campaigns of his last years.

Peter Ling captures Edison's last breath and other icons of American progress at the Ford Museum at Greenfield Village.

Peter Ling compares the impact of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on black culture in the 90s.