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Two American soldiers wait for the second wave of combat helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Division during Operation Pershing during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War defined America in the second half of the 20th century. (Photo by Patrick Christain/Getty Images)

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Your guide to the Vietnam War – plus 7 surprising facts you might not know

Walt Disney uses a baton to point to sketches of Disneyland

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Pocahontas and John Smith in Disney's ‘Pocahontas’ (1995). (Photo by AF archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Disney history: how has the corporation shaped our perception of the past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

PT Barnum and General Tom Thumb

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The greatest show on earth? The myths of the Victorian freak show

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Shakespeare and America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Greg Jenner. (Photo by Frank Monks)

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The race to save Apollo 13. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Madam CJ Walker, America's first female millionaire. (Photo courtesy of Madam Walker Family Archives/A'Lelia Bundles)

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Self Made: the real story of Madam CJ Walker, America’s first black female millionaire

Shoppers crowd a Woolworths store in 1955

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Q&AHas there always been panic buying? And when have people panic shopped through history?

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

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Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

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'The Poor Actress's Christmas Dinner', a painting by pre-Raphaelite artist Robert Braithwaite Martineau, says much about the way Victorians had begun to understand the problem of loneliness. (Photo by Bridgeman Art Library)

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The invention of loneliness: why being 'unhappy alone' is a surprisingly modern idea. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

17th September 1936: The British minister of health, Sir Kingsley Wood, watches nurses weighing newborn twins during a visit to Southmead Hospital in Bristol to see the work local authorities were doing for the maintenance and improvement of health and housing conditions. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Hadley Freeman.

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Hadley Freeman on a 20th-century family history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Al Pacino and Logan Lerman in Amazon Prime's 'Hunters'.

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A historian’s review of Amazon’s “Holocaust revenge saga” Hunters

On his plantation in Georgia, American politician Benjamin Hawkins is teaching Creek Native Americans how to use a plow, 1805. (Photo by Granger, NYC / TopFoto)

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"We cannot walk alone": 26 August 1963 – As they hold hands, Martin Luther King Jr and the other leaders of the March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom make history. (Photo by Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

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Hidden Figures: the incredible real history behind the film. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump

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The Stonewall Riots: the flashpoint that launched the gay rights movement in the US. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration depicting Governor Tryon and the Regulators, c1877.

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What was the Regulator movement that features in Outlander?

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Founding fathers: the men who made America

Black rights activist Malcolm X

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Malcolm X: Activism, assassination and how he predicted his own death

Andrew Roberts (Photo by Helen Atkinson)

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The Battle of Bunker Hill

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From Scots Highlanders to German soldiers: the Europeans who fought on both sides of the War of American Independence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Art Deco mechanical valentine (moving the cape causes the arms to move up and down) from the 1930s. (Photo by Alan Mays)

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Confronting evils.

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