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David II of Scotland ruled as king from 1329 to 1371 CE. Succeeding his father Robert the Bruce (r. 1306-1329 CE) when still a child, his early reign was threatened by the pretender Edward Balliol (c. 1283-1364 CE), son of...

The Battle of Passchendaele (October-November 1917), the final stage of the Third Battle of Ypres, took place in Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War (1914-18). The aim of the Allied...

Ibn Battuta (l. 1304-1368/69) was a Moroccan explorer from Tangier whose expeditions took him further than any other traveler of his time and resulted in his famous work, The Rihla of Ibn Battuta. Scholar Douglas Bullis notes that...

Bleeding Kansas' was a term coined by the New York Tribune in 1856, referring to the escalating hostilities in the Kansas Territory between pro-slavery activists and anti-slavery 'free staters'...

Robert I of Scotland, better known as Robert the Bruce, reigned as King of Scotland from 1306 to 1329 CE. For his role in achieving independence from England, Robert the Bruce has long been regarded as a national hero and one...

With its thick walls, high ceilings, large rooms, and wide verandahs, the colonial bungalow was constructed to meet the challenges of hot climates. Designed to keep cool air in, hot air out...

Dividing the National Map, lithograph on wove paper, c. 1860. Here, a cartoon parodies the four candidates in the US presidential election of 1860 — Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A...

Study of the Fetterman Fight, a modern-day depiction of the battle of 21 December 1866 during Red Cloud's War, by Kim Douglas Wiggins.

A 1942 photograph showing aircraft on the deck of the US aircraft carrier USS Wasp, which participated in WWII's Pacific War. The aircraft are Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters and Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers

A photograph of Field Marshal Douglas Haig (1861-1928), commander of the British Expeditionary Froce in France and Belgium from 1915 onwards during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)