Red Indians and how to tame them
The Elizabethans’ colonial voyages brought them into contact with a people very different level of civilisation from their own—the ‘Indians’...
16/01/2017
USA
Mormons in search of Promised Land, 1846-69
The Mormons have been described as the most systematic, organised, disciplined and successful pioneers in American history. For over 20...
11/12/2016
The Modoc War, 1872-73
From the late 1860s there was an uneasy peace until the outbreak in 1872 of the Modoc War, one of...
04/12/2015
Who was Ada Blackjack?
On 16th September 1921, four young men, Americans Lorne Knight, Milton Galle, and Fred Maurer; and Allan Crawford, a Canadian, were...
01/08/2015
Key moments of the American Civil War
Union and Confederate armies clashed close to the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg in the battle we now know was a...
09/07/2015
Bear River massacre in 1863
Four miles north of Preston, Idaho, the Bear River quietly ambles through green valleys and sagebrush covered mountains, the Shoshone...
29/01/2014
Building of the American nation: Freedom is a habit
By contemporary standards the society that emerged from the revolution was radically democratic, in the sense of granting political franchise...
17/12/2012
Abraham Lincoln: United States at the crossroads
Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the presidential election in November 1860 set the United States on the path to bloody civil...
07/10/2012
World War II: Aftermath Facts
The cost of World War II is uncalculable in human or financial terms. estimates indicate that about 55 million people...
20/05/2012
On This Day: Victory Day in Europe
On 8th of May 1945, Germany officially ceased military operations, ending the European conflict of World War II and prompting...
08/05/2012