As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

When the Second Bank’s charter was due to expire in 1836, Congress saw the Bank’s merits and, at its request, passed a recharter bill in 1832.

The second world war wreaked devastation, but America had emerged as a geopolitical and industrial power. The ructions of the 1960s were still a decade ahead; the Depression’s privations were 15 ...