Central America

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Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton: the man behind the hit musical

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Alexander Hamilton: the rise and fall and rise of an American founding father

Bob Marley performs live on stage with the Wailers in Holland

My history hero: Bob Marley (1945–81)

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Alexander Hamilton was a founding father, statesman, veteran, political intellectual, economist and media tycoon, says Jem Duducu. Portrait by Thomas Hamilton Crawford. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Alexander Hamilton

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

Second World War

Innocence under fire

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An example of the Zimmermann Telegram

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The telegram that brought America into the First World War

Fidel Castro addresses delegates of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, September 1960. (Photo by Tommy Weber/AFP/Getty Images)

How should history remember Fidel Castro?

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Statue of Toussaint Louverture, Palais National, Haiti. (Photo by Getty Images)

My history hero: Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803)

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Fidel Castro: in pictures

President Theodore Roosevelt operating an American steam-shovel at the Culebra Cut, Panama Canal, Panama, circa 1906. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images).

America’s devious dream: Roosevelt and the Panama Canal

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1940: the year Mexico legalised drugs

An illustration of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865

Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion: brutality and outrage in the British empire

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Life of the Week: Sir Francis Drake

Artist Leonora Carrington

My history hero: Leonora Carrington (1917–2011)

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