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Joseph McCarthy: life of the week . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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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.

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Fire rages in Dublin’s ‘Four Courts’, housing the Public Record Office of Ireland, in 1922. Many historical documents were destroyed in the conflagration. (Photo by Getty Images)

Interview Robert Bartlett: “The complexity of modern national politics has placed history at risk” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English prime minister Spencer Perceval being assassinated by bankrupt businessman John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons

Why was Spencer Perceval assassinated? Inside the killing of a Georgian prime minister

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Communism: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tokyo 1946: the war crime trial that shaped Japan’s future . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A Chinese tank nears the city of Lang Son in Vietnam, 1979 and (right) Chinese and Vietnamese ministers meet for talks, 1991. Rana Mitter highlights the role of diplomacy in bringing war between Vietnam and China to an end.

Historians debate: how do intractable conflicts come to an end? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Exterior of the White House, Washington, D.C

Who built the White House?

Former British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald sitting behind a desk

Where does the term ‘champagne socialist’ come from?

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The UK’s far right movement: history behind the headlines . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Senator Edward Kennedy leaves the Dukes County Courthouse in Edgartown, Mass

What was the Chappaquiddick incident?