American history

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Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm

Joyce Lee Malcolm on gun ownership in America “Why is the right to be armed such an emotional one for Americans? No police force can protect everyone, or even any one, all of the time” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A policeman searches an African-American man, 1970s

Why we should remember… Richard Nixon's war on drugs . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Clifford Williamson WL

Watergate at 50: the making of an American scandal . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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US president Richard Nixon in 1970

After Watergate: the fallout of an American scandal . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bernstein and Woodward, the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal

Your guide to the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon

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Photo of Richard Nixon at a rally in 1968

Richard Nixon: the rise and fall of an American president . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A customer shops for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store in Tinley Park, Illinois

The historians’ view: what are the real issues in the US gun control debate? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Firemen tackling a blitz fire at St Paul's Cathedral, London

Second World War

WW2 timeline: 20 important dates and milestones you need to know

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

A group of formerly enslaved African-Americans around the time of the US Civil War

Why we should remember… The Amnesty Act of 1872

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A portrait of sharpshooter Annie Oakley holding a shotgun, mid 1880s. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

Annie Oakley: the most famous sharpshooter in America . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An iconic figure in running history, Kathrine Switzer is the first woman to have officially run the Boston Marathon. (Photo by Getty Images)

From running marathons to working the nightshift: 8 surprising things women were banned from doing through history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A vintage photo of the RMS Titantic departing Southampton on 10 April 1912

Your history guide to RMS Titanic, plus 12 fascinating facts about the disaster

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Pod Brian Hochman WL

Wiretapping: a secret history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Atomic bomb damage in the city of Hiroshima, 1945

Second World War

Was the US justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War?