Buzz Aldrin Poses next To The U.S. flag On Moon

American history

Fess Parker, an American actor, as Davy Crockett

The man in the coonskin cap: your guide to Davy Crockett

Richard Nixon gives the thumbs-up after his resignation

General History

6 shocking presidential scandals that rocked the White House: from the Petticoat Affair to Clinton-Lewinsky

President Joe Biden delivers a speech

General History

Life after the White House: what the US presidents did next

Charlotta Bass, the first black woman to be nominated to the US Vice Presidency

Charlotta Bass: the first woman of colour to run for US vice president

Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy, Al Gore and George W Bush

General History

Lincoln, Adams and George W Bush: 6 disputed presidential elections in American history

Abraham Lincoln

How Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election victory set America on the path to Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women at Kappa Kappa Gamma and Gamma Phi Beta Houses of University of California at Los Angeles in 1952

General History

What is Greek life?

Rosemary Kennedy (right), the eldest Kennedy daughter. Pictured here with her mother Rose (centre) and sister Kathleen

The lost Kennedy: the tragic life of JFK’s sister Rosemary

Senator Edward Kennedy leaves the Dukes County Courthouse in Edgartown, Mass

What was the Chappaquiddick incident?

Workers working on ruins after the US civil war, circa

Q&AWhat was a scalawag?

Two men duelling. The man in foreground holds a smoking gun. The man in the background is falling, one hand to his face, his pistol limp in his hand

Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir? The real story of the maligned Founding Father and 'villain' of Hamilton

Video podcastInside a Jim Crow asylum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, Roger Sherman Robert R Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Why does the United States of America celebrate Independence Day on 4 July?

A depiction of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, Roger Sherman Robert R Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Your guide to the 1776 American Declaration of Independence

A Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) approaches Omaha Beach, Normandy on D-Day (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

"Hitler slept through D-Day", plus four other facts about the Normandy Landings you might not know.... This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of Huey P Newton sat at an event.

Is The Big Cigar true? The real story of how a fake Hollywood film helped Black Panther Huey P Newton escape the FBI

Benjamin Franklin: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

OJ Simpson: the trial that gripped the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Benjamin Franklin sits at a desk, reading some papers with one hand under his chin

Benjamin Franklin: the Founding Father who saved America

A black and white photo of Thomas Boston Corbett in front of a blurred drawing of the killing of John Wilkes Booth

Thomas ‘Boston’ Corbett: the man who killed Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth

The neutral USA entered World War II only when a Japanese fleet launched a big surprise air raid against its Pacific naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on 7 December 1941. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Second World War

When and why did the US get involved in WW2?

Michael Douglas as American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin in Apple TV+ period drama 'Franklin'

Is Franklin a true story? The real story of Benjamin Franklin and the Franco-American Alliance

Portrait of Mary Surratt

The real history of Mary Surratt's controversial role in the Lincoln conspiracy

Portrait of Edwin Stanton (left) next to a still of Tobias Menzies playing Edwin Stanton in Manhunt (right)

The real Edwin Stanton in Manhunt: the true story of Lincoln’s loyal secretary of war

Portrait of John Wilkes Booth

Why did John Wilkes Booth kill Abraham Lincoln? And how was he caught?

An illustration depicting the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Q&ACould modern medicine have saved Abraham Lincoln?

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States of America.

Abraham Lincoln: the greatest US president?

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon's surface

The history of the first moon landing: the road to Apollo 11

Katherine Graham, owner of the Washington Post, and Truman Capote

The real story of Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball

Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi is held aloft by his team after clinching a division title in 1960.

A brief history of American football and the Super Bowl