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Korean War - How the Cold War Became a Hot War
The Korean War was a Cold War conflict that took place between North and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. It pitted US-led United Nations (UN) forces against the communist bloc supported by the Soviet Union...
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President Truman and General MacArthur at Wake Island
President Truman and General MacArthur at Wake Island, photograph by the US State Department, 15 October 1950. This is a photograph of US President Harry S. Truman (left) meeting with General Douglas...
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MacArthur Back in the Philipinnes
An October 1944 photograph of General Douglas MacArthur (centre), US commander of the Far East forces, returning to the Philippines via Leyte during WWII's Pacific War. The US forces had been obliged to withdraw...
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US Presidential Election of 1860 - The Election That Caused a Civil War
The election of 1860 was one of the most pivotal moments in the political history of the United States and was one of the direct causes of the American Civil War. It came at a point...
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Douglas Fairbanks Raising Funds in WWI
An April 1918 photograph showing the actor Douglas Fairbanks and a crowd during the campaign to raise funds for United States Liberty Bonds during the First World War (1914-18).
Imperial War Museums, London.
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Sir James Douglas
Sir James Douglas, aka 'Black Douglas' (c. 1286-1330 CE), a Scottish knight who fought for his country's independence from England. He is here shown with fellow fighters Robert Bruce and William Wallace. (Entrance hall frieze...
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James II of Scotland
James II of Scotland ruled as king from 1437 to 1460. Succeeding his murdered father James I of Scotland (r. 1406-1437), James inherited the throne as a child. The first part of his reign witnessed intense rivalries between...
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Stephen A. Douglas
Stephen A. Douglas, a US Civil War era politician from Illinois, photo by Julian Vannerson, 1859.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Medieval Knights: 12 of the Best
The knights of medieval Europe were meant to be the finest fighting men of their age, even more important, they were expected to be pure in thought and deed, as exemplified in the chivalrous code which they (usually...
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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five bills passed by the US Congress in September 1850 to diffuse a sectional crisis brewing between the 'free states' of the North and the 'slave states' of the South. The crisis was sparked...
