Independence movements come in different shapes and sizes in different parts of the world. And while many of us are familiar with Vietnam’s anti-colonial history,
Category: US civil war
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The Deep South has a history of racial animosity, but what happened when somebody tried to unite whites and blacks? Well, in the Great Depression
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Charles Darwin’s remarkable travels aboard HMS Beagle opened his eyes to the concept of natural selection and paved the way towards a scientific and human
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Elvis Presley paid a visit to President Richard Nixon in 1970. But why? In the first of a two part series on celebrity visits to
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Thomas Jefferson is today known as one of America’s greater presidents. So much so that both Democrats and Republicans claim him as their own. But
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In this article, Kevin K. O’Neill looks at crime in early 19th century London. This was an age before the birth of the police, and
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Following our look at Body Armor in World War I, this month Adrian Burrows looks at a second bizarre warfare invention – the bat bomb.
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Our image of the week looks at the time the Spanish Conquistadors took Tenochtitlan, modern day Mexico City. We’re yet to foray closely into
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An image from the fascinating former Portuguese colonial capital in Mozambique is this week’s image of the week. As you approach Ilha de Mocambique (Island
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Were the 1920s German paramilitaries known as the Freikorps Nazis, saboteurs or liberators? Our cover story in the latest edition of History is Now magazine