North America
Elizabeth A. Fenn examines a little known catastrophe that reshaped the history of a continent. |
Richard Cavendish remembers Henry Hudson's attempted discovery of the Northwest Passage. Published in History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 8
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John A. Kirk recalls the dramatic events at Little Rock, Arkansas, fifty years ago this month, when a stand-off over the granting of black students access to integrated education brought the civil rights agenda to international attention.
Published in History Today, Volume: 57 Issue: 7
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John Spiller surveys race relations in the United States during Reconstruction and constructs a balance sheet. |
Richard Cavendish recalls the slave liberation movement in 19th-century Kansas. |
Andrew Boxer traces the origins of a historical issue still as controversial and relevant today as in past centuries. |
Marking the 250th anniversary of General Wolfe’s victory over the French at Quebec, Jeremy Black considers the strategy employed by British forces in their struggle to gain and hold Canada. Published in History Today, Volume: 59 Issue: 6
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Richard Cavendish remembers the infamous mafia massacre of February 14th, 1929. |
Despite the rise of Barack Obama, many African-Americans still feel like second-class citizens. John Kirk charts the progress of the civil rights movement through its most prominent body, the NAACP, which celebrated its centenary in February 2009. Published in History Today, Volume: 59 Issue: 2
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The famed radio broadcast of HG Wells' War of the Worlds took place on October 30th, 1938. |
Anthony Aveni explains how the people planning great monuments and cities, many millennia and thousands of miles apart, so often sought the same inspiration – alignments with the heavens. |
King was shot dead on the balcon of the Lorraine Motel on April 4th, 1968. |
A century ago international anarchists were causing public outrage and panic with their terror tactics. Matt Carr considers the parallels with al-Qaeda today. |
Segregation on buses in Alabama officially ended on November 13th, 1956. |
Viv Sanders puts an inspiring figure, and an important event, into historical perspective. |
Sylvia Ellis has been listening in to LBJ’s taped telephone calls from the Oval Office and finds they have much to tell the historian about the man behind the escalation of the Vietnam war.
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