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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sit together in an open carriage, smiling and waving to crowds following their wedding at Windsor Castle in May 2018. Harry wears military uniform, while Meghan wears a white wedding dress and veil.

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From Nell Gwyn to Meghan Markle: 9 romances between actors and royals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Halle Berry holds up her Oscar statuette while posing in a sheer embroidered evening gown beside a large gold Oscar statue at a press backdrop.

20th Century

16 remarkable moments in the history of the Oscars

Painting of the first Thanksgiving

General Modern

Think you know everything about the history of Thanksgiving? Here’s 21 facts that will prove you wrong

View of the White House, home to the US President

21st Century

When was the White House built – and why is it white?

J Robert Oppenheimer (left), and Cillian Murphy

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Is Oppenheimer a true story? Meet the real Robert Oppenheimer, ‘father of the atomic bomb’

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Are Bertha and George Russell real? Inside the real Vanderbilt divorces that rocked the Gilded Age

A historical reenactor, dressed as a member of the United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War, takes a selfie with a phone. He is standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC; a Stars and Stripes flag is to his right.

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What is Juneteenth, and why is it celebrated? A historian explains the significance of the holiday today. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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"These women transformed his understanding of the world": making Malcolm X. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Enola Gay aircraft, which dropped the first atomic bomb of the Second World War on Hiroshima.

Second World War

Was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US in WW2 justified?

John Kennedy and Barry Goldwater

20th Century

Was JFK about to be re-elected? An expert weighs in on the president's lost second term

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Could America have won the Vietnam War? The mistakes that denied the US victory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

JFK and Marilyn Monroe

20th Century

“Risks he should never have taken”: a historian’s take on JFK’s sexual waywardness

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Who shot first?Lexington and Concord. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Minutemen facing British soldiers on Lexington common

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What happened at the battles of Lexington and Concord?

Portraits of William and Ellen Craft

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A “desperate leap for liberty”: how Ellen and William Craft made a daring escape from slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Did Ronald Reagan 'Make America Great Again'?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Black America on British airwaves. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sexuality on trial in colonial America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 'Blue People' of Kentucky

Victorian

Blue Fugates: the rare blood disorder that turned the ‘Blue People of Kentucky’ blue

Farmers standing in a field

20th Century

Where does the term redneck come from?

John F Kennedy in 1960 (left) and would-be assassin Richard Pavlick

20th Century

The JFK assassination attempt you’ve never heard of

The hydroelectric power plants at Niagara Falls, seen in 1890, would have been a key target for the US in War Plan Red (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

20th Century

War Plan Red: The secret US plan for war with Britain via Canada

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Who was the greatest President of the United States in history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody standing in front of his saddle, holding a rifle behind his back.

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13 famous cowboys and gunslingers from the history of the American Wild West

Fess Parker, an American actor, as Davy Crockett

Georgian

The man in the coonskin cap: your guide to Davy Crockett

Richard Nixon gives the thumbs-up after his resignation

General History

6 shocking presidential scandals that rocked the White House: from the Petticoat Affair to Clinton-Lewinsky

President Joe Biden delivers a speech

General History

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

20th Century

Charlotta Bass: the first woman of colour to run for US vice president

Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy, Al Gore and George W Bush

General History

Lincoln, Adams and George W Bush: 6 disputed presidential elections in American history

Abraham Lincoln

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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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