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

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President Nixon making final TV address

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The 5 most notorious presidents in US history

George Washington

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The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a salvage vessel disguised as a mining ship, designed to secretly recover Soviet sub K-129

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The dispossession of Native Americans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Halloween postcard

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10 things you didn’t know about the history (and mystery) of Halloween

Life in bondage Formerly enslaved African-Americans sit for a photograph in Virginia, c1850. At that time, 4 million people were still enslaved across the US, as debates around abolition raged on both sides of the Atlantic (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

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An illustration of slaves picking cotton on a plantation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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David Olusoga"Black history affects all of us – it is British history". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Afua Hirsh with her ‘Enslaved’ co-presenters Simcha Jacobovici and Samuel L Jackson

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Afua Hirsch on tracing the story of the transatlantic slave trade

The ‘Pilgrims’ stride onto American soil in 1620 after crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower, as shown in a 20th-century painting. The colony that they established was – initially, at least – a genuinely enlightened place, writes James Evans. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson at her home in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Alamy)

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Isabel Wilkerson: “Caste is like the wind. You may not be able to see it, but it’s a quietly destructive force”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pilgrim Fathers boarding the Mayflower

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5 facts about the Mayflower

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WW2 surrender signed, 2 September 1945

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How and when did WW2 end?

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference. (Photo by Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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The Pilgrim fathers arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts on board the Mayflower. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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As seen in this early 19th-century depiction of an initiation, Masons have long used secrecy to "create a sense of awe and specialness around their rituals". (Image by Alamy)

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A history of Freemasonry: from Enlightenment ideals to satanic conspiracy stories

The pilgrim fathers

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Your guide to the Pilgrim Fathers, plus 6 interesting facts

The then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taking part in the final presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, 19 October 2016. Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was “rigged” against him. (Photo by Joe Raedle/AFP/Getty Images)

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A 19th-century painting of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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The arrival of Sir Walter Raleigh in Virginia

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What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke Island?

National guardsmen confront confront citizens during Chicago's race riots

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Four Murder, Inc hitmen are questioned by detectives

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American abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass, c 1866. (Photo by Shutterstock)

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