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.
On March 16, 1968 Robert Kennedy announceshe will run for president.
Elizabeth is the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she receives a good education and can speak six languages.
War posters are intended to convince U.S. citizens that they cannot work hard-enough to help out the "boys overseas," so they must do more.
The day after Gravelines, the wind pushes the Spanish Armada into the North Sea; they have a chance to make landfall and fight towards London. Queen E...
A long investigation, by the Warren Commission, officially concludes that Oswald acted alone in President Kennedy's murder.
The Navy has a long history of racial discrimination so Brashear does menial tasks and has little hope of advancement.
Soldiers on duty at Opana Point see evidence of incoming planes on new radar equipment. It turns-out that the planes are not the expected American pla...
Even with the Constitution, debate continues over how much power the federal government should have.
South Carolina History Standard 8-5.1 The impact of Reconstruction, Industrialization, and Progressivism
America adopts child labor laws in 1938, but other countries still employ children to provide cheap labor.
Here are links about Puritans, Quakers, Mary Dyer, and Anne Hutchinson.
Most of America's early colonists are trying to escape punishment for their religious beliefs, yet it continues in America.
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