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East German leader Willi Stoph greets West German chancellor Willy Brandt at Erfurt. (Getty images)

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Cold War summits: how USA & USSR leaders worked to end the conflict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev together

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What brought a thaw in the Cold War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

National Woman’s Party activists sew a star onto their ‘ratification flag'

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Why we should remember…The 19th amendment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War allies Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (left to right) at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. East and west would soon become bitter rivals, however

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The Cold War: 9 key questions

George C Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan, which pledged billions of dollars to help rebuild war-torn Europe

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What was the Marshall Plan?

President Truman, seen here in 1948

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What was the Truman Doctrine?

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Hollywood history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Reverend Spencer Parsons, head of the Chicago branch of the Clergy Consultation Service (CCS), an interfaith group dedicated to helping women obtain abortions before 'Roe v Wade'

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The American clergy who helped women get abortions before Roe v Wade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard Nixon at the White House with his family following his resignation as president, 9 August 1974. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Richard Nixon's final address: the day the president departed the White House. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Moses Roper, the first African-American fugitive from slavery to make a home in Britain

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Moses Roper: the story of an American fugitive from slavery in Britain

A painting showing a man and woman side by side with somber expressions. The man holds a pitchfork.

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What great paintings sayAmerican Gothic By Grant Wood, 1930. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Newspaper front page with headline 'Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer'

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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)

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The story of the American Civil War32 key moments in the landmark conflict

Painting showing the surrender at Yorktown – a man on a horse moves between two lines of cavalry

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When and how did the American Revolution end?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of Brooklyn (aka the battle of Long Island), 27 August 1776

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American Revolutionary War: the 9 battles that made the United States

A late 18th-century portrait of proto-feminist and first lady Abigail Adams

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A portrait of silversmith Paul Revere, with his head resting on his hand.

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19 key figures of the American Revolution, from royals to revolutionaries

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A brief history of US abortion law, before and after Roe v Wade

A portrait of Benjamin Franklin. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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The Treaty of Paris 1783: how to negotiate an exit. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The first major clash of the war of American independence, at Bunker Hill

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Tea, taxes and the taking up of arms: a timeline of the American Revolution

A fierce clash between colonists and British troops in Boston on 5 March 1770

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The American Revolution: your guide to the 18th-century war of independence

An oil painting by Benjamin West shows some of the main belligerents of the Seven Years’ War, a conflict that lay the foundations for future discord between Native Americans and the British and French empires

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How did the American Revolution begin?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Spanish flee Tenochtitlan under fierce fire during La Noche Triste.

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Why we should remember…When Spanish conquistadors were forced to flee the Aztec capital. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

New Yorkers outside the Stonewall Inn in June 1969.

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October 1876: General Nelson Miles talking with Chief Sitting Bull after the army's defeat at Little Bighorn

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Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm

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Joyce Lee Malcolm on gun ownership in America“Why is the right to be armed such an emotional one for Americans? No police force can protect everyone, or even any one, all of the time”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A policeman searches an African-American man, 1970s

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US president Richard Nixon in 1970

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