USA

Larry Gragg describes how Franklin wrote to Whitefield: ‘He used to pray for my conversion but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard’.

Alton Ketchum describes the Founding Father's earliest military foray, against the French on the headwaters of the Ohio River.

M. Foster Farley introduces one of the most marked and original men of his day and generation; Tattnall distinguished himself in many hard-fought engagements from 1812 to 1864.

David Patten describes how the breech-loading rifle was newly used during the American War of Independence and how its founder Patrick Ferguson himself was slain in North Carolina, 1780.

Stanley H. Palmer offers an historical answer to increasing homicide in Boston, New York and Chicago.

Wallace Brown describes how, during the decades before the Civil War, the United States abounded in religious reformers and perfectionists.

Peter Petrie profiles an American journalistic pioneer, the founder and first editor of the New York Herald newspaper.

Richard C. Simmons describes how a land-owners’ colony, rather than a military settlement, was Gilbert’s aim.

Henry I. Kurtz describes how subduing the Indians of the Plains was one of the chief tasks of the United States Army after the close of the Civil War.

Ann Leighton explains how food, folklore, and tradition all influenced the pilgrims' battle against disease.