Central America

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

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

Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman in Oaxaca Mexico

Explore Oaxaca: Central Mexico’s “fair and beautiful city”

Bob Marley performs live on stage with the Wailers in Holland

My history hero: Bob Marley (1945–81)

Government troops patrol a village during the Salvadoran Civil War

The end of El Salvador’s civil war

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

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