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    A reconstruction of a Viking church
    Viking

    Vikings in America: the Europeans who arrived 500 years before Columbus

    A photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken after his November 1860 election and before his March 1861 inauguration.
    Victorian

    How Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 election victory set America on the path to Civil War

    The arrival of Sir Walter Raleigh in Virginia
    Tudor

    What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke Island?

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    A depiction of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence, 4 July, 1776, from a painting by John Trumbull. The men standing are (l to r) John Adams, Roger Sherman Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)
    Georgian

    Why does the United States of America celebrate Independence Day on 4 July?

    The battleship USS California following the attack at Pearl Harbor
    Second World War

    12 things you (probably) didn’t know about Pearl Harbor

    This is an American flag with waves folding over the blue field of stars and red and white stripes. (Photo by Visions of America/UIG via Getty Images)
    Georgian

    Revealed: the history of America’s national anthem

    (Illustration by Jonty Clark for BBC History Magazine)
    General Modern

    1776: the year of American independence

    President Abraham Lincoln visiting soldiers encamped at the Civil War battlefield of Antietam in Maryland, 1 October 1862. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
    General Modern

    The American Civil War: 7 facts and fictions

    An illustration showing the effects of the Fugitive Slave Act,  passed by Congress in 1850. The law aimed to make it easier for slaveholders to reclaim runaway ‘property’ in the free states, and contributed to rising political tension. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)
    Victorian

    The story of the American Civil War: 32 key moments in the landmark conflict

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    A US soldier teaching two junior 'rookie' recruits how to clean a gun during the First World War
    First World War

    7 things you (probably) didn’t know about America’s entry and involvement in the First World War

    A joint Franco-Native Indian raid left 56 residents of Deerfield, a small township in north-western Massachusetts, dead. (Alamy)
    Stuart

    America: Brave new world or accident?

    Jesse James is one of America’s most notorious outlaw heroes. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
    Victorian

    How historically accurate are film portrayals of Jesse James?

    Grace Humiston was nicknamed 'Mrs Sherlock Holmes' by the American press. (Image courtesy of Brad Ricca)
    First World War

    America’s ‘Mrs Holmes’: how one woman took on the cases the NYPD couldn’t solve

    An example of the Zimmermann Telegram
    First World War

    The Zimmermann telegram: the telegram that brought America into the First World War

    'Soccer' and 'diaper' are among many 'American' words that are more faithful to the old English tongue than those used in Britain today, says James Evans. Other 'Americanisms' were used in Shakespeare's plays before the first English colony was established in Virginia. (L to R: Photos by Hulton Archive/Getty Images; DeAgostini/Getty Images; Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    Tudor

    From candy to diapers: the purity of American English

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