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Captain Edward Teach, better known as 'Blackbeard', a pirate who plundered the coasts of the West Indies, North Carolina and Virginia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The most famous and despicable pirates from history

A depiction of the French and Indian War, with George Washington on horseback

A guide to the Seven Years’ War

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Emma Dabiri "The Harder They Fall doesn’t engage with one of the main drivers behind the violence"

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Malcolm Gaskill The Ruin of All Witches

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A forgotten witch hunt in New England

Photo showing a snowy Wounded Knee, where US troops massacred the Lakota Sioux, with bodies visible in the foreground

The massacre at Wounded Knee: why did the US Army attack the Lakota Sioux?

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Turning points 1776: The year of American independence

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Around the world in 72 days: how journalist Nellie Bly became the real Phileas Fogg

Photograph of Bass Reeves, the first black deputy US marshal west of the Mississippi River

From slave to real Lone Ranger? The incredible life of black Wild West lawman Bass Reeves

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Pearl Harbor Episode 5

John Duval Gluck, Jr, 'the Santa Claus man', pictured left, visiting the General Post Office to promote the Santa Claus Association’s benefit show

The con man who saved Christmas

The first controlled, powered and sustained human flight on 17 December 1903 by the Wright Brothers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Flying into history: the Wright Brothers’ Flyer and the world’s first flight

US heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis receives a medal during WW2

Second World War

From Joe Lewis to Audrey Hepburn: 10 famous faces of WW2

Mary Sarotte reveals how US and Russian leaders squandered the opportunity to forge a lasting partnership at the dawn of the 1990s. (Image by Getty Images)

How US-Russian relations fractured in the 1990s

The USS West Virginia burns at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941

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What if… Japan hadn't attacked Pearl Harbor