USA

Thomas Jefferson's former vice-president was held on February 19th, 1807.

Larry Gragg digs beneath the glitzy surface of America’s ‘sin city’ to find out how this extravagant home of gambling and glamour came into being.

Segregation on buses in Alabama officially ended on November 13th, 1956.

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

Adlai Stevenson ran for a second time against Eisenhower in 1956, but Eisenhower won the election even more convincingly than in 1952.

Sylvia Ellis has been listening in to LBJ’s taped telephone calls from the Oval Office and finds they have much to tell the historian about the man behind the escalation of the Vietnam war.

Marilyn Monroe married Arthur Miller on June 29th, 1956. The marriage lasted five years.

Richard Cavendish describes the massacre of the 'slave hounds' at the settlement of Pottawatomie Creek on May 24th, 1856.

Margaret Walsh tracks down an attempt to link the appeal of the greyhound with the brand values of a famous American company.