USA

On 14 November 1848 the Fox sisters conjured up a movement when they made contact with the dead – or so they claimed.

The dismissal of a government scientist over the unproven battery additive AD-X2 galvanised the American scientific community in the 1950s.

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

‘What historical topic have I changed my mind on? That the Indian war then occurring to the north of Salem was crucial to the expansion and perpetuation of the witchcraft crisis.’

In The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era, Michael deGruccio discovers a generation betrayed by the fight for freedom.

Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet by Edward Luce and Henry Kissinger: An Intimate Portrait of the Master of Realpolitik by Jérémie Gallon reveal the parallel lives of the Cold War frenemies.

A routine Native American cattle round-up at the US-Mexico border in 1898 became an international incident.

Malibu’s 1960s Beauty Farm aimed to get a new generation of teenagers marriage-ready

On 25 June 1922 Black activist Marcus Garvey found common cause with the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

In 19th-century America abortion was weaponised as part of a culture war.