USA

Mark Meigs uncovers a fascinating initiative enacted in France at the end of the First World War designed to turn American soldiers into students empowered with all the virtues of the Progressive era.

A 17-day political dogfight at the 1924 Democratic National Convention revealed the faultlines in American society, from prohibition to Protestantism to the shadow of the Ku Klux Klan.

Barry Strauss looks at the contrasts and similarities between the city-states and the 'land of the free'.

Wild Bill Hicock and wagon trains - familiar images of pioneer spirit, but a more complex and less triumphalist view of how the American frontier moved West is explained by Margaret Walsh.

Barbara Schreier offers a fascinating insight into how the dress, customs and attitudes of Jewish women escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe altered as part of their assimilation as Americans.

Rachel Braverman on a shocking American realist.

Elisabeth Perry explains why US women did not breakthrough in politics between the wars, despite having won the vote.

The history of the controversy over People's Park in Berkeley CA is discussed. The 1960s saw the beginnings of the health consciousness movement - natural food, exercise, relaxation.

Capturing the spirit of America - Erin Cho looks at the building blocks of American childhood and the objectives of their creator.

Peter Ling compares the impact of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on black culture in the 90s.