USA

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.

The city was rocked by an earthquake on 18 April 1906.

Tim Clancey asks whether American Presidents have exceeded their legitimate powers.

Susan-Mary Grant argues that the cult of the fallen soldier has its origins at Gettysburg and other battlefield monuments of the American Civil War.

Jim Downs finds that the reasons the Federal government was slow to respond to Hurricane Katrina are rooted in the South’s racial and economic history, and wonders if the catastrophe may lead at last to genuine Reconstruction.

Mark Rathbone considers why American trade unionism was so violent for much of 1865-1980 but so much more peaceful by the mid-twentieth century.

Historians have often stressed the modernity of America’s Civil War. Yet Gervase Phillips argues that the dependence on often weary, sickly horses on both sides in the war had a significant impact on the development, and final outcome of, the struggle.