Central America

Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull. (Photo by Francis G. Mayer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Alexander Hamilton vs Thomas Jefferson: the rise and fall of America’s founding fathers

An Aztec priest performing the sacrificial offering of a living human's heart to the war god Huitzilopochtli. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

General ancient history

Q&A How many people did the Aztecs sacrifice?

Mona Baptiste, a Trinidad-born blues singer

“London is the place for me”: David Olusoga on the Windrush generation

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BBC World Histories reader survey

Bob Marley performs live on stage with the Wailers in Holland

My history hero: Bob Marley (1945–81)

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

First World War

Innocence under fire

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

An illustration of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865

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

Francis Drake

Life of the Week: Sir Francis Drake

Artist Leonora Carrington

My history hero: Leonora Carrington (1917–2011)

Photo of pipe and tobacco

Q&A Did people smoke anything before tobacco was discovered?

A painting in the cave of Altamira, Spain

General prehistory

The rise of Homo sapiens

A portrait of Ian Lancaster Fleming, the creator of the character James Bond

The spy who loved Jamaica