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

American history

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Salem witch trialsEpisode 1: introduction

A axe stuck in a piece of wood

General Early Modern

Q&AWhy do we say 'bury the hatchet'?

George III: the tyrant who lost America?

A portrait from the 18th century of King George III wearing his coronation robes

George III: why his reputation as the mad king who lost America needs to be re-evaluated

A 12-year-old boy with a large bruise on his face ‘pulls threads’ in a New York sweatshop

The 19th-century slums of New York

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

A plane crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center

9/11: Twenty years on

US secretary of state William Seward (seated left) signs the agreement to buy Alaska from Russia in 1867

America’s hidden empire: the USA's forgotten imperial expansion

The Statue of Liberty against a blue sky

Q&AWas the Statue of Liberty designed specifically for the United States?

Soldiers disembark a landing craft with a battle on the beach beyond

How to win a 20th-century battle

In partnership with Gaijin War Thunder

John F Kennedy with US Army officials during the Cuban missile crisis

“We are eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked”: how the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated

What’s next for period drama?

Theodore Roosevelt visiting a US army camp, c1918. (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The great American U-turn: from isolationism to WW1 combatants

Witnesses to the Berlin Wall

George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla

Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla: the history behind The Current War

Are revolutions doomed to failure?

Watergate in 100 days: how President Nixon fell

Watergate in 100 days: how President Nixon fell

Emma Dabiri"Harriet Jacobs’ writing transports readers to the world of Southern slavery"

The history and mystery of UFOs

Japanese Americans in World War Two | Daniel James Brown podcast

Forgotten heroes: Japanese Americans in World War Two

The trials of Ethel Rosenberg

A drag queen applies lipstick in this 1959 photograph

Q&AWho was the first person to call themselves a ‘drag queen’?

A photograph of President John Quincy Adams

Q&AWhat’s the oldest photo of a US president?

Why are we living longer than our ancestors?

Blackface: a brief history

The Statue of Liberty in New York. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

QuizAmerican history

The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know

How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?

Prohibition: everything you wanted to know

Outlander: the real history that inspired the time-slip drama