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The American Civil War transformed the nature of conflict. Its opening salvos harked back to Waterloo; its end anticipated the industrial warfare of the 20th century, writes David White. |
The designer of the Colt revolver, the most celebrated killing machine in the history of the Wild West, died on January 10th 1862, aged 47. Published in History Today, Volume: 62 Issue: 1, 2012
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Mark Rathbone assesses the importance of the office of 'Veep' (VP) over the past 220 years. |
Bitter feelings between Loyalists and Patriots after the British surrender at Yorktown led to many skirmishes and retaliations. Published in Volume: 7 Issue: 5, 1957
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Greg Carleton explains how disastrous defeats for the Soviet Union and the US in 1941 were transformed into positive national narratives by the two emerging superpowers. |
Andrew Boxer demonstrates the ways in which external events affected the struggles of African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. |
King's 'I Have a Dream' speech in Washington DC on August 28th, 1963, was admired all over the world. Richard Cavendish provides a short biography of Martin Luther King. Published in
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Viv Saunders reveals how sport and society are intertwined. |
Patricia Cleveland-Peck looks at the long history of plant dispersal between the New World and the Old. |
The American Civil War was not a simple struggle between slaveholders and abolitionists, argues Tim Stanley. |
Six years after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in New Orleans Thomas Ruys Smith looks at its impact in the light of the city’s historic troubles. |
Richard Cavendish charts the life of the author Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was born on June 14th, 1811. |
The Hindenburg disaster marked the beginning of the end for airship travel. Yet what is often forgotten today is that, until the 1930s, airships were a popular and luxurious way to travel. Published in History Today, 2011
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Alex von Tunzelmann reassesses a two-part article on the troubled relationship between the United States and Cuba, published in History Today 50 years ago in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion. |
Michael Dunne marks the 50th anniversary of the US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Castro's Cuba. Published in History Today
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The first Pony Express riders set off on April 3rd, 1860. Richard Cavendish charts its history. |
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