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

American history

Hadley Freeman on a 20th-century family history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Al Pacino and Logan Lerman in Amazon Prime's 'Hunters'.

A historian’s review of Amazon’s “Holocaust revenge saga” Hunters

On his plantation in Georgia, American politician Benjamin Hawkins is teaching Creek Native Americans how to use a plow, 1805. (Photo by Granger, NYC / TopFoto)

Food and war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"We cannot walk alone": 26 August 1963 – As they hold hands, Martin Luther King Jr and the other leaders of the March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom make history. (Photo by Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

The story of Martin Luther King's struggle for civil rights in America

Hidden Figures: the incredible real history behind the film

Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump

From Lincoln to Trump: a brief history of the US Republican Party

The Stonewall Riots: the flashpoint that launched the gay rights movement in the US

An illustration depicting Governor Tryon and the Regulators, c1877.

What was the Regulator movement that features in Outlander?

Founding fathers: the men who made America

Black rights activist Malcolm X

Malcolm X: Activism, assassination and how he predicted his own death

The Battle of Bunker Hill

From Scots Highlanders to German soldiers: the Europeans who fought on both sides of the War of American Independence

Confronting evils.

Confronting evils. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles Manson stares out from fabric on sale in San Francisco

The afterlife of Charles Manson

John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon

Does history show that age affects US presidents’ performance? Plus, how old is too old?

Democratic presidential candidates Birch Bayh, Jimmy Carter, Fred R Harris, Milton Shapp take on the press during the Iowa Democratic Caucus on 11 January 1976. (Photo by NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)

A brief history of the US Democratic Party

Portrait of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan), who disappeared in 1974 following a bloody homicide

The curious case of Lord Lucan + 10 other mysterious disappearances from history

Glamorous portrait of movie actress Hedy Lamarr wearing white fox fur short jacket

History heroMartha Lane Fox chooses Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000)

American president Warren G Harding and his wife, First Lady Florence Harding.

Tension in the Middle East and populist presidents: what the world was like 100 years ago

German prisoners of war

What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War

New York City police watching agents pour liquor into a sewer

Wet vs Dry: how prohibition fractured America

American socialite Wallis Simpson

The vilification of Wallis Simpson: how Edward VIII's mistress was savaged by society

From Allies to enemies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American actresses Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Bennett playing the March girls in George Cukor's film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women', 1933. (Photo by RKO Pictures/Courtesy of Getty Images)

“Fresh and full of soul”: the history of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

Crowds protest in Tehran

Opinion: is Iran a nation at war with itself?

"A great social experiment”: a brief guide to prohibition

How the American Revolution created a global storm

Richard Nixon gives a thumbs-up

Presidents under pressure: the resignation of Richard Nixon and the impeachment case against Trump. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Few war leaders have been more profoundly steeped in history than Winston Churchill, who drew inspiration from his ancestor – and one of Britain's most celebrated generals – the Duke of Marlborough (left). (Images by Getty Images/Bridgeman

Sending history into battle: the lessons that war leaders have tried to learn from the past

The White House in Washington DC, which has been home to all US presidents since John Adams in 1800. (Photo by Getty Images)

8 facts you might not know about the White House, home of the president of the USA

Lauren Bruner and Iyozo Fujita

Pearl Harbor: 5 frontline stories from people who were there