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

Charlotta Bass, the first black woman to be nominated to the US Vice Presidency

Charlotta Bass: the first woman of colour to run for US vice president

Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy, Al Gore and George W Bush

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

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How Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election victory set America on the path to Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fire rages in Dublin’s ‘Four Courts’, housing the Public Record Office of Ireland, in 1922. Many historical documents were destroyed in the conflagration. (Photo by Getty Images)

InterviewRobert Bartlett: "The complexity of modern national politics has placed history at risk". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English prime minister Spencer Perceval being assassinated by bankrupt businessman John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons

Why was Spencer Perceval assassinated? Inside the killing of a Georgian prime minister

Communism: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tokyo 1946: the war crime trial that shaped Japan's future. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Chinese tank nears the city of Lang Son in Vietnam, 1979 and (right) Chinese and Vietnamese ministers meet for talks, 1991. Rana Mitter highlights the role of diplomacy in bringing war between Vietnam and China to an end.

Historians debate: how do intractable conflicts come to an end?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Exterior of the White House, Washington, D.C

Who built the White House?

Former British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald sitting behind a desk

Where does the term ‘champagne socialist’ come from?

The UK's far right movement: history behind the headlines. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Senator Edward Kennedy leaves the Dukes County Courthouse in Edgartown, Mass

What was the Chappaquiddick incident?

Two men duelling. The man in foreground holds a smoking gun. The man in the background is falling, one hand to his face, his pistol limp in his hand

Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir? The real story of the maligned Founding Father and 'villain' of Hamilton

Schoolchildren from Capel Celyn with a banner saying 'Liverpool shall not drown Capel Celyn'

Capel CelynThe Welsh village that became a reservoir for England

Illustration shows force-feeding of suffragettes

What was the Cat and Mouse Act? The reason why suffragettes were force-fed

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From the bitter battle of 1832 to the poll that cemented the two-party system: 7 elections that rocked Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle and William Lenthall with a purple background.

My history heroSir Lindsay Hoyle chooses William Lenthall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How Stalin ran rings round the west. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British general elections: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of suffragists picket outside the House of Commons and holding signs.

What was the difference between the suffragists and the suffragettes?

A mob setting fire to Newgate Prison and freeing prisoners.

The Gordon RiotsHow an anti-Catholic petition escalated into the most destructive riots in London’s history

Emily Davison, photographed a few days before she was fatally injured after stepping in front of the king's horse during the Derby

Emily Davison: the suffragette who stepped in front of the king's horse

A composite image showing Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War, and pro-Democracy demonstrators marching towards Tiananmen Square in 1989

The violent history of student protest. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Swedish pop group ABBA performs during the Eurovision Song Contest

When was the first Eurovision and who won? Plus 6 facts on the history of the song contest

Benjamin Franklin sits at a desk, reading some papers with one hand under his chin

Benjamin Franklin: the Founding Father who saved America

Michael Douglas as American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin in Apple TV+ period drama 'Franklin'

Is Franklin a true story? The real story of Benjamin Franklin and the Franco-American Alliance

British prime minister Harold Wilson, March 1967. (Photo by Michael Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Harold Wilson: 5 facts about the Labour Party prime minister

The real Shirley Chisholm in 1974 and the Regina King in Netflix film 'Shirley'

Is Netflix’s Shirley a true story? The real history behind Chisholm's astonishing achievements

Black and white sunset at Westminster abbey with the Big Ben backlit taken in may before starting the repair works at the tower.

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