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.
The great famine of 1932-33, in Ukraine, took the lives of millions of people - yet, it is little known in the rest of the world.
"Ultra" was the cover-name given to the actual intelligence, obtained from decoding Germany's military messages at Bletchley Park, which was secretly ...
The Attica State Correctional Facility, thirty miles east of Buffalo in upstate New York, was an overcrowded place in 1971.
A disaster unfolded at Attica State Prison when officials and inmates clashed during 1971.
This clip is from Eye of Vichy (L'oeil de Vichy) - by Claude Chabrol and narrated by Brian Cox (in the English version) - a documentary compiling hist...
After Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and their colleagues are released, they renew their efforts to get a constitutional amendment, granting women the right t...
As scenes from Vietnam filled American television screens, night after night, people in the country began to grow very weary of the war.
During the Tet Offensive, in early 1968, U.
By 1967, protestors gathered in large crowds to raise their collective voices against the Vietnam war.
The first state to grant female suffrage did so in 1869 and the NAWSA worked every year thereafter to make this right a national one.
La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, urges people to fight internal tyranny. See the English translation and listen to a spellbinding performa...
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