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The Savagery and Civility of the Thanksgiving Feast

A celebrated image of the first Thanksgiving presents an idealised view of a troubled relationship.

Street Types of New York City: Emigrant and Pretzel Vendor, Alice Austen, c.1896. Courtesy Library of Congress

Let Them Eat Meat

Faced with an extortionate rise in the price of kosher meat, Jewish women in New York’s Lower East Side employed protest tactics borrowed from the radical political movements that prospered in their neighbourhood.

askan Treaty, 1867 by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 19th century. © Bridgeman Images

The Alaska Purchase

The deal to buy Alaska from Russia was signed on 30 March 1867.

The Story of Native North America

This panoramic study of Native North American history has remarkable honesty and scope.

America's First Nation

In the absence of a European democratic model, the Founding Fathers turned to the apparently perfect state of the Iroquois Five Nations as a template for a federal United States, combining the best of both worlds.

Executive Order 9066

The decree that led to the internment of Japanese-Americans was passed on 19 February 1942.

Toni Morrison. Copyright Everett Collection/Alarmy

Portrait of the Author as a Historian: Toni Morrison

The dead, white, male canon has not merely stifled African-American history so much as smothered it. One author has spent her career grappling with the problem of America’s whitewashed past, writes Alexander Lee.