American history

Richard Nixon gives the thumbs-up after his resignation

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

President Joe Biden delivers a speech

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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

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

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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&A What 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

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Video podcast Inside 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

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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