Governments can be constitutional monarchies, dictatorships, federal republics, parliamentary democracies, constitutional republics. More than a system of rules and regulations, they help civilized people to live together peacefully. These stories explore different forms of government.
Elizabeth and her husband go to trial; the jury finds her sane.
Tule Lake internment camp allow students to take class and families to grow crops.
On April 30, 1789, George Washington becomes America's president. He is unanimously elected for his first term of office (as he was for his second).
When the lawmakers are the lawbreakers, and a crime is not legally a crime, how can we trust the law?
Vasily Zaitsev is a famous and successful Russian sniper.
Lack of commitment to the war by France and the Viet Minh's knowledge of the Vietnamese countryside turns the war in Vietnam's favor.
This chapter describes the climate of the country under dictatorship.
The deaths of one black and two white freedom fighters goaded Congress into passing the first voting rights legislation since Reconstruction.
Pioneers and their loaded wagons move west, forcing Native Americans to leave their ancestral lands.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gives President Johnson the ability to escalate America's involvement in Vietnam, but America resists the draft and prot...
President Lincoln predicts he will not survive his second term.
While there are early warnings of a potential attack, the Office of Navy Intelligence does not believe them.
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