The Ku Klux Klan
The ‘invisible empire’ of the Klan, writes Louis C. Kleber, was the answering organization in the Southern states to the Radical regimes imposed by the victorious North.
Louis Kleber
Spain and England in Florida
Louis C. Kleber writes how Florida was ceded to Britain in 1763; retroceded to Spain after the American Revolution, and acquired by the United States in 1819.
The XYZ Affair
Twenty years after the Declaration of Independence, writes Louis C. Kleber, the Americans, now at peace with Britain, were involved in tortuous negotiations with the Directory of the French Republic.
Alaska: Russia’s American Folly
In 1867 the United States purchased Alaska from Tsar Alexander II at a price of just two cents an acre. What brought Russia’s American empire to such an ignominious end?
Spain and France in Florida
In 1513 the Spaniards reached Florida; Louis C. Kleber describes how fifty years later the French followed them.
The Presidential Election of 1876
In the centenary year of the Declaration of Independence, a deeply troubled American Republic went to the polls to elect a new president. A close and bitter election followed, fought in the shadow of scandal and fraud.
South Carolina: Proprietary Colony
Louis C. Kleber traces the early settlement of the Palmetto State.
Jones Raids Britain
Though Paul Jones’s landing at Whitehaven did comparatively little real damage, writes Louis C. Kleber, ‘the shock to official and public sensitivities... was enormous’.
The Mason Dixon Line
After long dispute between the Penn and Calvert families, writes Louis C. Kleber, the astronomers, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, sailed for America in November 1763 to lay down their momentous line.
The Era of the American Cowboy
Before the extension of the railways, writes Louis C. Kleber, long cattle-drives were the way of life west of the Mississippi.