History Today

Our boys over there? Mark Ellis looks at how America's black newspapers and population reacted to US involvement in the First World War and at the steps the government took to try and ensure a favourable press.

Penelope Johnston describes China's revered North American hero

Milton Goldin compares American philanthropy past and present.

Ann Hills on fishing tales from Hawaii

John Bossy has painstakingly reconstructed from clues and evidence, a hitherto untold story of intellectual intrigue, spying and double-cross in Elizabethan England.

John Roberts finds nationalism a better bet than the idylls of Marx for the longue duree of historical understanding.

Keith Nurse describes important Iron Age finds in Norfolk on display at the British Museum

James Driver gains an insight into current food controversies from the Victorians.

Marjorie Morgan discovers the origins of the image-making of modern marketeers and admen in the upwardly mobile world of 19th-century English society.

Peter Wiseman reconstructs the splendour and intrigue of Imperial Rome