US presidents

Watergate in 100 days: how President Nixon fell

Watergate in 100 days: how President Nixon fell

A depiction of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence, 4 July, 1776, from a painting by John Trumbull. The men standing are (l to r) John Adams, Roger Sherman Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Why does the United States of America celebrate Independence Day on 4 July?

A photograph of President John Quincy Adams

Q&A What’s the oldest photo of a US president?

A set of dentures belonging to George Washington. The first US president wore fake teeth for much of his life

Q&A Did George Washington have wooden teeth?

Engraved portrait of George Washington, the first president of the United States of America

George Washington: your guide to the war hero, founding father, first US president and slave owner

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?

Podcast Fredrik Logevall Web large

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?