Troop Withdrawals from Korea
It was not until a year after the armistice that the remaining American divisions were withdrawn from Korea, on August 18th, 1954.
USA
The Republican Party Founded
The Republican Party was founded on July 6th, 1854.
The US Supreme Court and Civil Rights
Mark Rathbone looks at the role of the Supreme Court in the history of civil rights in the USA from 1865 onwards.
Thomas Jefferson and the Environment
Peter Ling argues that Thomas Jefferson’s ideas have had dramatic continent-wide effects on the landscape and ecology of the United States.
Nature and Nation: Britain and America in the 19th Century
David Lowenthal explores natural history enthusiasms among Victorian Britons and Americans, and finds an explanation for their differing approaches to conservation.
The Gadsden Purchase
The treaty to bring parts of present-day Arizona and New Mexico into the United States was signed on December 30th, 1853.
Attlee and Truman
Jerry Brookshire shows that the ‘special relationship’ in 1945-51 was in safe, and curiously similar, hands.
‘Silent Cal’: Reassessing Calvin Coolidge
Once seen as doing too little to avert the depression and characterised as ‘Silent Cal’, the reputation of US President Calvin Coolidge is changing.
Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Major League Baseball
William Rubinstein looks at a turning point in America’s national sport.
Inauguration of President Franklin Pierce
The 14th President was inaugurated on March 4th, 1853.