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.
President Kennedy's response to the Soviet Union, to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis, has two versions. One is public, the other is private.
With the blessing of the U.S. Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, the South continues to legally practice racial inequality as a way of life.
Jesse is born inClay County,Missouri, on September 5, 1847, and loses his father at a young age.
Cornwallis wants Tone quickly tried and executed, so there was no justice.
Writings of historians and ruins at Olympia allow us to visualize what Olympia looked like and how and where athletes trained.
Barely sixteen, Jesse participates with William Quantrill and his men in killing citizens of Lawrence Kansas.
Jesse takes part in theCentralia Massacre, in which his group kills or wounds 22 unarmed Union troops.
You will know why Japan attacked Hawaii.
At 7:53 a.m. the Japanese first attack American planes and then begin to bomb "Battleship Row"; finally at 7:58 a.m., air raid sirens begin.
People make negative remarks about Susan B. Anthony because of her views.
Critics of "That Convention" say it resembles "a lunatic asylum, and that Susan "represented the aggressive female American brains."
Others tried to intervene to save Tone without success.
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