USA

Have dominant narratives of the American Civil War been detrimental to its emancipatory promise?

Saint or sinner? Recent demonstrations in the American city of St. Louis are just the latest battle for the legacy of a medieval French king. 

How an individual act of resistance in 1850s’ New York led to the desegregation of the city’s transit system.

Despite her fragile health and the chauvinism of the time, Susan Anderson brought compassion and competence to the medical profession in a still wild West. 

A terrorist attack on Wall Street a century ago aroused suspicion of anarchists, socialists and foreigners, as America saw danger around every corner.

Rudy Giuliani’s ‘zero tolerance’ attitude to community policing was rooted not in right-wing talking points, but in the liberal politics of the Civil Rights era.

Women, non-importation agreements and spinning bees in the American Revolution.

23 years before the Mayflower, the first pilgrim settlers to America tried, and failed, to settle in Newfoundland.

Europeans did not introduce slavery to North America – although they did change the way it was practised.