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

American history

Benjamin Franklin in London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

President Ronald Reagan at Durenberger Republican convention rally, 1982. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Ronald Reagan (1911–2004). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of Victoria Woodhull addressing a congressional committee on the benefits of women's suffrage, 1871. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The LibraryThe one-woman revolution

Mario Lanza c1950. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Mario Lanza (1921-59). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Is Martin Luther King's ‘I have a dream’ the greatest speech in history?

John F Kennedy pictured in 1957

My history hero: John F Kennedy (1917–63). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Royal Navy battle

The Royal Navy’s American disaster

Life of the Week: Andy Warhol

Timeline: the countdown to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

A sack of red beans

Q&AWhy do we say ‘spill the beans’?

Q&AWhy didn't Canada join the colonies in the American Revolutionary War?

Two survivors of the Lusitania disaster

Did Britain doom the Lusitania?

Photo of pipe and tobacco

Q&ADid people smoke anything before tobacco was discovered?

Comic Sam Kinison

My history hero: Sam Kinison (1953-92). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women wearing unrationed shoe soles during the war

Dressed for war: fashions of the Second World War

A still from a 1960 film about the Alamo, showing the chapel being covered by troops

Remember the Alamo! What happened in the 1836 siege and battle?

A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square

Britain at war over Vietnam

A Grand National Union Banner depicting president Abraham Lincoln and his running mate Andrew Johnson

Lincoln: The vote that saved America

Eleanor Roosevelt

My history hero: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A still from the set of 'Westward the Women', directed by William A Wellman. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

How the Wild West was spun

The Stygian Lake in the Fifth Circle of Hell from from Dante’s epic poem 'The Inferno'. The phrase "Paint the town red" may originate from the sentence in the poem "we are they who painted the world scarlet with sins". (Photo by Getty Images)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Paint the town red’?

Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist Cyril Lionel Robert James talking to a group of students at Speakers' Corner, London, in 1967. (Photo by Roy Milligan/Daily Express/Getty Images)

My history hero: CLR James (1901–89). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Ian Morris

Books interview with Ian Morris: "War can be a productive force in that it produces larger, more peaceful societies". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustrated map of Savannah, Georgia

Ye olde travel guide: Savannah, 1859. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

The Men Who United the States

The Sedgeford Portrait, which is said to show Pocahontas and her young son, Thomas. (Photo by Getty)

In search of the real Pocahontas

British film director Alfred Hitchcock perched on either arm in a promotional still for his film, 'The Birds', c1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John and Jackie Kennedy shaking hands with a crowd. Jackie continued to fight her husband's corner after his death, says Mark White. (Photo by Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Was JFK a good president?

Historian at the Movies: Parkland reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photo of Jackie, Caroline and Jack Kennedy

Unseen photos of John F Kennedy and family