By 1943, the price of rice was beyond unaffordable for most in Bengal, and people were dying in the streets.... more

In 1942, in the midst of the Second World War, the British administration feared that Japanese forces would take India... more

By the end of the Spanish-US war, the Philippines was on the menu. Two battles played out simultaneously on the... more

In 1898, whilst his boss was on a break at the osteopath, Teddy Roosevelt basically started a war. A master... more

On 7th July 1898, President McKinley formally annexed Hawaii, making it a colonial territory of the USA. It was not... more

Not everyone agrees that the USA should be classed as an empire. But in the late 1800s, after white settlers... more

Arizona Territory, April 30, 1871. The canyon known as Aravaipa lies still in the predawn darkness, the only sounds to... more

A whole genre of movies is based on a relatively short period of nineteenth-century American history. But what is the... more

In 1850, 13-year-old Olive Oatman and her family set off on the perilous journey by foot from Missouri to Arizona.... more

Fort Laramie was once a stockade where European fur traders and Native Americans lived together peacefully. But by the 1850s... more