American history

Cartoon from American satirical magazine Puck, c1885, showing American millionaires playing Monopoly with the country's assets

Who were the tycoons of the Gilded Age? Meet the ruthless ‘robber barons’ who made millions

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Cold war mind games

Louisa Jacobson as Marian Brook & Denée Benton as Peggy Scott in The Gilded Age. (Image by Alison Cohen Rosa © 2021 Heyday Productions, LLC and Universal Television LLC)

The Gilded Age preview: “Entry into a world that really hasn’t been covered on television before”

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America’s “Roaring Twenties”: everything you wanted to know

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Escaping slavery in the American South

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

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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 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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Second World War

Pearl Harbor Episode 5 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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