Central America

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

Peace, stability and pragmatism: a brief history of US-Mexico relations

An example of the Zimmermann Telegram

First World War

The Zimmermann telegram: 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?

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

Portrait of Frida Kahlo

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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

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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