America’s Violent Crusade against Alcohol
At the turn of the 20th century, America experienced a violent crusade against alcohol led by female crusader Carrie Nation
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J. Edgar Hoover – the LGBT FBI boss?
J. Edgar Hoover was head of the FBI from the 1920s to the 1970s – the hammer of gangsters, communists, and LGBT people. Strange, given he was in a lifelong gay relationship.
US Civil War: how Europe aided the Confederacy
How Europe helped the Confederacy during the American Civil War while professing its abhorrence of slavery is an interesting tale of hypocrisy and mendacity in equal measure.
What if Russia invaded Alaska?
Alaska was once part of Russia but the tsar sold it to the United States for a bargain sum. So might Vladimir Putin be eyeing it up?
Did the Founding Fathers oppose democracy?
The Founding Fathers never conceived of the United States as a democracy and let’s not get started on women, slaves and the poor as Tony McMahon discovers
When cigarettes were healthy for you!
Between the 1930s and 1950s, smoking cigarettes was presenting as being healthy for you and endorsed by doctors and athletes.
People’s Party – American populism before Trump
American populism has been on display with President Trump and the 2020 election but it has a long history in the United States
Muslim African slaves in America
Muslim African slaves in America had a different status to non-Muslim slaves often being put in supervisory roles and regarded as more cultivated
Toppling statues and renaming streets – nothing new
There is a long history of toppling statues and renaming streets and cities and historian Tony McMahon thinks we should vex a lot less about this
George Floyd – learning lessons from Martin Luther King
Historian Tony McMahon compares the aftermath of the death of George Floyd with what happened after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968
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