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

American history

President Bill Clinton laughs at Boris Yeltsin's joke during a joint news conference in Hyde Park, New York, October 1995

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A portrait of Flora MacDonald, who found fame as a Jacobite heroine sailing Bonnie Prince Charlie to safety

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Illustration showing a scene from the Battle of Moore's Creek

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A photograph of Al Capone, in a suit, looking into the camera

Your guide to the Prohibition-era gangster Al Capone

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and French President Jacques Chirac at the NATO Summit in May 1997

Nato, Russia, and the history of the post-WW2 tensions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The American Revolutionary War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Actress Vesta Tilley poses with a bicycle while dressed in male uniform

General History

Drag kings: a brief history of male impersonators

Nixon in China: the trip that changed the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mrs Caroline Backhouse Astor

Mrs Astor and the Four Hundred

America’s Cold War culture boom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cartoon from American satirical magazine Puck, c1885, showing American millionaires playing Monopoly with the country's assets

Who were the tycoons of the Gilded Age? Meet the ruthless 'robber barons' who made millions

Cold war mind games. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Gilded Age preview: “Entry into a world that really hasn't been covered on television before”

America’s “Roaring Twenties”: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Escaping slavery in the American South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Captain Edward Teach, better known as 'Blackbeard', a pirate who plundered the coasts of the West Indies, North Carolina and Virginia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The most famous and despicable pirates from history

Emma Dabiri"The Harder They Fall doesn’t engage with one of the main drivers behind the violence". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Malcolm GaskillThe Ruin of All Witches. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A forgotten witch hunt in New England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo showing a snowy Wounded Knee, where US troops massacred the Lakota Sioux, with bodies visible in the foreground

The massacre at Wounded Knee: why did the US Army attack the Lakota Sioux?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Turning points1776: The year of American independence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photograph of Bass Reeves, the first black deputy US marshal west of the Mississippi River

From slave to real Lone Ranger? The incredible life of black Wild West lawman Bass Reeves

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John Duval Gluck, Jr, 'the Santa Claus man', pictured left, visiting the General Post Office to promote the Santa Claus Association’s benefit show

The con man who saved Christmas. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The first controlled, powered and sustained human flight on 17 December 1903 by the Wright Brothers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Flying into history: the Wright Brothers' Flyer and the world's first flight

US heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis receives a medal during WW2

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How US-Russian relations fractured in the 1990s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The USS West Virginia burns at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941

What if…Japan hadn't attacked Pearl Harbor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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