US presidents

Supporters of Donald Trump protest in Pennsylvania as the state’s electoral college casts its votes, December 2020

The constitutional crisis behind 2021’s presidential transition

Richard Nixon resigns

A brief history of presidential impeachment

President Donald Trump

Life after the White House: what the US presidents did next

President Nixon making final TV address

The 5 most notorious presidents in US history

George Washington

American presidents: 9 things you (probably) didn’t know

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln, Adams and George W Bush: the 6 most disputed presidential elections in American history

Photo of Abraham Lincoln

Q&A Did Abraham Lincoln’s beard win him the election?

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JFK: the path to power

Bernstein and Woodward, the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal

Your guide to… the Watergate scandal

WW2 surrender signed, 2 September 1945

Second World War

How and when did the Second World War end?

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference. (Photo by Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Donald Trump: a president without precedent?

The then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taking part in the final presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, 19 October 2016. Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was “rigged” against him. (Photo by Joe Raedle/AFP/Getty Images)

A brief history of election “rigging” in the United States

Richard III

57 history questions for your home pub quiz

President Kennedy gives a televised speech, 22 October 1962. (Photo by Getty Images)

The Cuban Missile Crisis: everything you wanted to know

Phyllis Schlafly

The woman who opposed equality with men: Phyllis Schlafly and the real history behind Mrs. America