ALAMYCONTENTS Features
✪ On the
coverCOVER ILLUSTRATION
BY DAVIDE BONAZZIFamilies pose with
their wagons near the
foothills of the Rocky
Mountains, late 19th
centur y. On page 56,
Karen R Jones tells
the stories of women
grasping new social
opportunities in the
American WestPERSPECTIVES
48
The Yalta Conference, 1945 ✪
BY DIANA PRESTON
How Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt viewed
their key meeting during the Second World
War, and the global impact of the summit56
How women won the West
BY KAREN R JONES
It’s often portrayed as the macho domain of
cowboys and outlaws – yet many resourceful
and determined pioneer women made their
mark on the A merican West66
1984 : Rewriting the past ✪
BY DORIAN LYNSKEY
In writing his classic novel, Orwell drew
on the very real horrors of the 20th century
Plus From We to The Handmaid’s Tale, how
history inspired five other fictional dystopias14
The forgotten story of
Hispanic North America ✪
BY CARRIE GIBSON
What happened to earlier communities in
a history now dominated by English voices?
THE LONG READ
23
The complex history of
concentration camps ✪
BY DAN STONE
W hy we must look to the past to understand
recent debates about border camps in the US
THE BIG QUESTION
40
Why can’t we escape the grip
of the Second World War? ✪
Experts discuss the long-lasting legacy
of the global conflict