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 dollar as the international reserve currency was controversial but practical.
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.
Senator Barry Goldwater brought a new brand of Republicanism to American politics, writes Roger Hudson.
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.
