<p><span class="deck">“To push back the consciousness of American beginnings, beyond Jamestown, beyond the Pilgrims, to the highwater mark of the Elizabethan Age” -- Part One of a New Series.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Cursed by ancestry,bedeviled by his posterity, beset by forces he could not grasp, George III is usually remembered as the ogre of Jefferson’s Declaration. An eminent English historian reassesses that strange and pathetic personality</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The lady author modelled her famous fictional creation after her own wonder boy —and condemned a generation of “manly little chaps” to velvet pants and curls</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Introduced not quite a century ago under a name born for oblivion, the game of tennis promises to last forever</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> For more than a century, Irish-Americans were whipsawed between love for their tormented native land and loyalty to the United States. But no more</span> . </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> At Bath the British can catch glimpses of their rebellious daughter country’s history in an unusual museum</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Fifty years after FDR first took office, a British statesman and historian evaluates the President’s role in the twentieth century’s most important partnership</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">An extraordinary World War I naval operation is recounted by the commander of a decaying coastal steamer crammed with a terrifying new explosive</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> An outstanding American historian follows Winston Churchill through a typical day during his political exile in the 1930s and uses that single twenty-four-hour period to reveal the character of the century’s greatest Englishman in all its complexity. See Churchill lay bricks, paint a landscape, tease his dinner guests, badger his secretaries, dictate a history, make up a speech, write an article (that’s how he earns his living), refuse his breakfast because the jam has been left off the tray, refight the Battle of Bull Run, feed his fish, drink his brandy, fashion a “bellyband” to retrieve a particularly decrepit cigar, recite all of “Horatius at the Bridge,” take two baths—and await with noisy fortitude the day when he will save the world.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">A recent British ambassador to Washington takes a generous-spirited but clear-eyed look at the document that, as he points out, owes its existence to King George III</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Born in response to the shoddy, machine-made goods available in the marketplace, the Arts and Crafts movement in America began in isolated workshops and spread to the public at large, preaching the virtues of the simple, the useful, and the handmade</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">It is to the U.S. Air Force what Normandy is to the U.S. Army. The monuments are harder to find, but if you’re willing to leave the main roads, you will discover a countryside that resonates with one of the greatest military efforts in history.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In 1941, the president understood better than many Americans the man who was running Germany, and Hitler understood Roosevelt and his country better than we knew.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">He wanted only what every journalist of the time did: an exclusive interview with the Duke of Windsor. What he got was an astonishing proposition that sent him on an urgent, top-secret visit to the White House and a once-in-a-lifetime story that was too hot to print, until now.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In the infancy of television (but not of American royalty-worship), the networks fought their first all-out battle for supremacy over who would get to show Queen Elizabeth II being crowned.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">He spent his tour of duty bombing German cities and made it home only to discover he could never leave the war behind him. Then, a lifetime later, he found a way to make peace.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Britain’s poorest, most dismal African colony, and what he saw there fired him with a fervor that helped found the United Nations.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">At their zenith, the great transatlantic liners were lean runways for Schiaparelli dresses and Sulka dressing gowns, gorgeous stage sets for ship-to-shore gossip, <em>bon mots</em>, cocktail shakers, and dancing all night. It still can happen.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">What it was like to be young and on the front lines when Europe mounted an assault on Detroit with small, snarling, irresistible machines that changed the way we drove and thought</span></p>
<p><span class="body">American self-interest was involved, of course, but the Marshall Plan remains what some have referred to as a rare example of “power used to its best end.”</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A hundred and fifty years ago, famine in Ireland fostered a desperate, unprecedented mass-migration to America. Neither country has been the same since.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">He was in the vanguard of that wave of young Britons who, in the 1960s, stormed our shores and gave us back our musical heritage.</span></p>
