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.
Historians believe this document - The Mayflower Compact - is the first self-governing agreement which Europeans made after reaching the shores of the...
When he was arrested for illegal gambling, Meyer Lansky did not want to testify against his friends.
The prototype for the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 first flew in 1947.
This image depicts a MiG-17, a Soviet-era fighter jet. It was the first Soviet-era fighter with an after-burning engine.
This plane was the Soviet Union's first supersonic fighter. It was the USSR's primary fighter jet during the last half of the 1950s.
The MiG-21 was a Soviet-era fighter-interceptor which was heavily used by North Vietnam against American planes during the Vietnam War.
Minoru Yashui was the first of three Japanese-Americans to challenge the U.S. federal government for violating the civil rights of Japanese-Americans ...
On June 23, 1972, an audio recorder taped a damaging talk - called "The Smoking Gun" - between Nixon and Haldeman. This photo depicts the Watergate Co...
On the 6th of January, 1941 - eleven months before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor - President Franklin D.
This drawing, depicting the Battle of Monroe, is from the August 17, 1861 issue of Harper's Weekly.
It was during the Nuremberg Trials when the world first realized the shocking extent of atrocities committed at concentration camps, in Europe, during...
Between October 22 and November 29, 1951, the United States government conducted nuclear-weapon tests at the Nevada Proving Ground (later called the N...
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