This publication publishes articles on topical issues of North American history, beginning with colonial times and including the beginning of the XXI century. The collection brought together scientists from Moscow, Kursk, Ufa, Krasnodar, Saratov, Kaliningrad, Khabarovsk, Voronezh, as well as colleagues from Italy (Naples), Belarus (Minsk), Ukraine (Kiev) and Kazakhstan (Aktobe, Uralsk) . A distinctive feature of the collection is the interaction of specialists in various fields of American studies: historians, philologists, cultural scientists. The problems of the articles are of interest for their diversity and scientific significance of the subjects considered in them .. Studies reflect the realities of the domestic and foreign policy life of the United States of the XVIII-XXI centuries . Various articles explore the American labor movement, classical and modern literature, the history of Russian America, historiography. Reflected such stories as the relationship of governors and opposition in colonial Boston, the farmers' protests of the XVIII century. , Russian "frontier" in Alaska, political caricature in the United States, the fight against terrorism, American-Russian literary ties. A number of articles are devoted to the presidents of the United States: G. Hoover, J. Kennedy, J. Carter . On the 215th anniversary of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of the famous study “On Democracy in America”, an analysis of his views on the problem of American exceptionalism is timed. A number of articles are based on archival materials. Among the new approaches to the study of history should be highlighted narrative, discursive approach, gender studies, multidisciplinary approach, methodological approaches of intellectual history. The materials of the collection are designed for American historians, teachers of higher and secondary schools, students, bachelors, masters and graduate students, as well as all those interested in the problems of history and culture of the United States.