USA

The man who gave his name to the notorious killing machine died on February 26th, 1903

James I. Robertson, Jr. looks at the man behind the legendary Confederate hero.

Richard Carwardine describes the new library dedicated to Abraham Lincoln.

Mark Weisenmiller explains how, forty years ago, the ‘Sunshine State’ played a pivotal role in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

David Ellwood argues that the attempts of British politicians to copy an American ‘role model’ are likely to fail.

The great majority of women's lives were changed by the American Revolution: they were increasingly drawn into the political debate – as household producers and consumers, and as wives and mothers.

Thomas Doherty examines a series of conflicts between left-wing artists and movie moguls at the time of Sergei Eisenstein's brief sojourn in Tinseltown in the 1930s.

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.

The American aviator was born on February 4th, 1902.