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.
Life was not easy for President Johnson and Robert McNamara (Johnson's Secretary of Defense) as the Vietnam War dragged on.
By 1886, according to contemporary articles, William Ewart Gladstone (then Great Britains Prime Minister) believed Ireland needed to be independent.
Combatants in a military conflict try to win the hearts of the people with various types of propaganda.
This letter, which is maintained by the Dutch archives in The Hague, provides some evidence that the Dutch West India Company purchased Manhattan Isla...
P.W. Botha (1916 - 2006) lived to be ninety years old.
Britain's Queen Mary - known as "May" to her family members - is pictured here with her six children.
Lt. Col. James ("Jimmy") Doolittle and his crew ran out of fuel after their bombing run over Japan's home islands.
Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), from Virginia, was an aristocrat who participated in many key events during the American Revolution.
Four years after President Nixon resigned, he agreed to a series of interviews withDavid Frost, a British journalist. The first series of interviews ...
On the 8th of August, 1974, America's 37th president - Richard Nixon - gave his 37th Oval-Office address to the nation. He told the country he was re...
Robespierre dies, by guillotine, on July 28, 1794. During the French Revolution, he was known by his supporters as "The Incorruptible," but it was he ...
Depicted in the film, Bitter Harvest, Ukraine (and its people) suffered a disastrous famine when government policies impacted food production and dist...
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