Buzz Aldrin Poses next To The U.S. flag On Moon

American history

'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)

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From candy to diapers: the purity of American English. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The crew of ‘Mi Amigo’. The pilot, 23-year-old Lt John Kriegshauser, can be seen in the front row, far left. (Photo courtesy of Sheffield County Council via American Air Museum in Britain)

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Mi Amigo: the deadly WW2 bomber crash in Sheffield play park that killed 10 airmen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting of America’s founding fathers inside the National Archives in Washington DC. (Photo by Visions of America/UIG via Getty Images)

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A history of United States government shutdowns. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker with Tony Foulds, 82, who for nearly 75 years has tended the memorial of 10 US airmen who were killed when their B-17 crashed in Endcliffe Park in Sheffield in February 1944. Tony witnessed the crash as an eight-year-old boy. (Photo courtesy of Dan Walker)

Second World War

“We got Tony a fly-past”: how BBC’s Dan Walker organised tribute to WW2 plane crash heroes in Sheffield

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.

Cold War

Did the Cold War ever really end?

Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull. (Photo by Francis G. Mayer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

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Alexander Hamilton vs Thomas Jefferson: the rise and fall of America's founding fathers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

General Modern

Did the Age of Exploration bring more harm than good?

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (L) fights Dick Tiger (R) in Madison Square Garden, New York, 1965 (Photo by Getty Images)

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The bronze statue in Washington DC celebrating Abraham Lincoln's emancipation of slaves shows the 16th president standing over a shackled African American. Lincoln is "one of the towering figures in the story that Americans tell about themselves," writes Lucy Worsley. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Victorian

Lincoln and slavery: "If I could save the union without freeing any slave, I would"

A painting depicting George Washington with British soldiers at Yorktown. In the final battle of the war at the siege of Yorktown, writes Jem Duducu, there were nearlyas many French soldiers and sailors as American rebels fighting for colonial independence. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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American history myths: 7 things people get wrong

The president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt and his staff gathered together in New York to find a solution to the economic crisis. 1935. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Icons: the game changers of the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The "brilliant" Walt Disney with Mickey Mouse in 1935. (Getty Images)

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What if JFK had lived?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

JFK prepares to sign the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union. (Picture by Corbis/Getty Images)

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Nuclear nightmare: the Cuban missile crisis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Ghent Altarpiece. (Image by Getty Images)

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Treaty Of Paris, 1783, by Benjamin West (Photo by Granger/REX/Shutterstock)

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Brexit and American independence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Singer Paul Robeson rehearses at a piano in 1958. He had a unifying outlook, observing that "neither suffering nor compassion is confined to one face." (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

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Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after the closing bell on 29 September 2008. A record 778 points were wiped off the Dow Jones that day, as the 2008 financial crisis pushed the world's banking system to the edge of collapse. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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The credit crunch: "It's a story of hubris followed by a fall". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The first baby is born to English settlers in the Americas. (Illustration by Lynn Hatzius)

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A big day in history: the first baby is born to English settlers in the Americas. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln's funniest jokes

Brass band playing during Mardi Gras in Mew Orleans

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Troops in Korea, c1951. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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Forging alliances: Britain and the US in the Korean War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The American War of Independence: Three Films

US president Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shake hands at a summit in Singapore on 12 June 2018. (Photo by Handout/Getty Images)

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President Ronald Reagan throwing a football from his desk in the Oval Office. (Photo by Mary Anne Fackelman-Miner/White House/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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America's changing dream. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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1983: the Cold War almost goes nuclear. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bay of Pigs invasion: Kennedy’s Cuban catastrophe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pathologist Thomas Harvey holds the brain of Albert Einstein in a jar, Kansas, 1994. Harvey, the on-duty pathologist during the eminent physicist's autopsy, removed Einstein’s brain and kept most of it stored in two glass jars, refrigerated inside a beer cooler, for more than 20 years. (Photo by Michael Brennan/Getty Images)

20th Century

Q&AWhat happened to Einstein's brain?

20th Century

TimelineKey moments in the American civil rights movement

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