North America

Viv Sanders puts an inspiring figure, and an important event, into historical perspective.

Richard Cavendish describes how Major-General Edward Braddock arrived in Virginia to take command against the French in North America, but was defeated on July 9th, 1755.

The Founding Father was born on 11 January 1755.

Mark Rathbone looks at the role of the Supreme Court in the history of civil rights in the USA from 1865 onwards.

Andrew Cook looks at the idea of the unaided assassin, and finds several 20th-century examples.

Bernard Porter points out similarities and contrasts between terrorism then and now.

Elizabeth A. Fenn examines a little known catastrophe that reshaped the history of a continent.

Peter Ling analyses Martin Luther King's involvement with non-violent protest in the USA. 

Documentary film-maker Martin Smith calls for makers of history programmes for television to reassess their standards.

Mark Weisenmiller shows how the fate of Al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners in Cuba is linked to a US Supreme Court decision of sixty years ago.