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

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Cold war mind games

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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

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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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A forgotten witch hunt in New England

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

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The con man who saved Christmas

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

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