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Pro-choice and pro-life advocates outside the Supreme Court in the 1970s, following the Roe v Wade decision. (Photo by Diana Walker//The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images)
20th Century

A brief history of US abortion law, before and after Roe v Wade

October 1876: General Nelson Miles talking with Chief Sitting Bull after the army's defeat at Little Bighorn
Victorian

The battle of Little Bighorn: what happened at ‘Custer’s last stand’?

Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm
General Modern

Joyce Lee Malcolm on gun ownership in America “Why is the right to be armed such an emotional one for Americans? No police force can protect everyone, or even any one, all of the time”

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Juneteenth celebrations, also known as Emancipation Day, in Texas, 1900
General Modern

Juneteenth: what is it, historians on its relevance, and 9 articles you should read

A policeman searches an African-American man, 1970s
20th Century

Why we should remember… Richard Nixon's war on drugs

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Watergate at 50: the making of an American scandal . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US president Richard Nixon in 1970
20th Century

After Watergate: the fallout of an American scandal

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Victorian

Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South

Bernstein and Woodward, the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal
20th Century

Your guide to the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon

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20th Century

Richard Nixon: the rise and fall of an American president

A customer shops for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store in Tinley Park, Illinois
General Modern

The historians’ view: what are the real issues in the US gun control debate?

A uniformed US soldier plants American flags at gravesites on Memorial Day
General Modern

Memorial Day When was the first, and who founded the US national holiday?

Firemen tackling a blitz fire at St Paul's Cathedral, London
Second World War

WW2 timeline: 20 important dates and milestones you need to know

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953
Cold War

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

A group of formerly enslaved African-Americans around the time of the US Civil War
Victorian

Why we should remember… the Amnesty Act of 1872

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