North America

An illustration showing protesters dressed as Native Americans emptying the contents of crates of tea from an East India Company ship into Boston harbour

The brutality behind the Boston Tea Party.

A cartoon about the Tea Act shows a colonist reading the proclamation with concern

What was the 1773 Tea Act?

Video podcastThe American Gilded Age: everything you wanted to know.

A portrait of George Robert Twelves Hewes

George Robert Twelves Hewes: the shoemaker who became a patriot

American suffragettes picket a building

The global legacy of the Boston Tea Party.

This illustration shows “Boston boys throwing tea into the harbour” on 16 December 1773

Boston Tea Party: your guide to the protest that ignited a revolution

Video podcastThanksgiving: everything you wanted to know.

American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin: the quiet force behind the March on Washington

Ward McAllister, played by Nathan Lane in period drama 'The Gilded Age'

Who is Ward McAllister in The Gilded Age?

Actor Lily Gladstone (left) plays Mollie Burkhart

The real history behind Killers of the Flower Moon: author explains true story of Osage Nation

Toy Story, starring cowboy Woody

10 milestones in Disney's 100-year history

Steamboat Willie, a mouse at the wheel

Cartoon century: a history of 100 years of Disney.

What was the March on Washington?

Martin Luther King speaks in front of microphones, during the March on Washtington

"I Have A Dream": the speech that America couldn’t ignore

A modern painting of the battle of Long Island

What if…the Continental Army had not escaped after the battle of Long Island?

OppenheimerIs Nolan perpetuating a historical myth?.

A c1943 photograph of USS Indianapolis. Built in New Jersey, the Portland-class heavy cruiser was launched in 1931 (Photo by US Navy/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

Into the jaws of hell: the WW2 sinking of USS Indianapolis.

A boy signs a petition against slavery (bottom left) in an 1826 satirical cartoon originally titled 'John Bull Taking a Clear View on the Negro Slavery Question', by R Cruikshank (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

The children who fought for the abolition of slavery.

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, seen in 1975, would have been the leading candidate to be the first person to step on the Moon had the Soviets landed before the US (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

What if...The Soviets had landed on the Moon first and won the Space Race?.

The city of Hiroshima, Japan, a few days after the first atom bomb is dropped in August 1945. This clearly demonstrated the apocalyptic potential of the new weapon (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Second World War

The Manhattan Project: your guide to the building of the first atomic bomb

Juneteenth celebrations, also known as Emancipation Day, in Texas, 1900

JuneteenthWhat is it, historians on its relevance, and 9 articles you should read

American aviator Bessie Coleman pictured in c1922, around the time she made her debut flight. Her astonishing aerial stunts would earn her the monikers ‘Queen Bess’ and ‘Brave Bessie’ (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Bessie Coleman: a boundary-breaking pilot who fought for her dream

A uniformed US soldier plants American flags at gravesites on Memorial Day

Memorial DayA brief history

A clown, c1970s. The next decade, there would be a panic over "stalker clowns" in the US (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

Clowns, agoraphobia and kayaks: a history of fear and loathing.

A family walks through San Francisco’s Chinatown district in 1904. Chinese culture endured in the US in spite of the Chinese Exclusion Act (Photo by Arnold Genthe/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

The Chinese Exclusion Act: your guide to the 19th-century US anti-immigration laws

Elsie Wright, who with her cousin Frances Griffiths took photos of sprites, gnomes and fairies, 1917 (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Fake news: 8 of the most notorious photograph hoaxes, from fairies to UFOs.

Illustration by Cat O'Neil

David Ingram: the Tudor sailor who hiked across pre-colonial America.

Women's history podcast episodes

Photograph of Pauli Murray

Pauli MurrayThe Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ icon who fought Jim and Jane Crow

A composite image showing an astronaut on the moon against a purple sky.

ConspiracyDid NASA fake the Moon landing?