Central America

Rutger Bregman. (Rutger Bregman (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

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Tectonic foliation in metamorphic rocks at Porthleven, Cornwall. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The British Museum in London

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Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

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Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

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HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury Docks

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West Indian immigrants arrive at Waterloo Station, 15 October 1961. (Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

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New York City police watching agents pour liquor into a sewer

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Portrait of founding father Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, c1806. (Photo by National Gallery Of Art/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

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Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico's left-wing president who in 1940 legalised drugs. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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How is the image of revolutionary Che Guevara commodified? Alex von Tunzelmann explores. (Photo by Francois ANCELLET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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A painting depicting the Mexican-American War of 1846–48: battle of Buena Vista, also known as battle of Angostura. Since that traumatic war, the US-Mexico bilateral relationship

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An example of the Zimmermann Telegram

First World War

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