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.
Long before Americans fought a Civil War - beginning in 1861 - slaves were running away. This document, from the U.S. National Archives, depicts...
On the 20th of February, 1962, Brigadier General Edward G. Lansdale prepared a memo addressing how the United States government could "help th...
This is the second page of George Mason's objections to the U.S. Constitution which he would not sign because it lacked a Bill of Rights. He set-fort...
This is the third page of George Mason's objections to the U.S. Constitution which he would not sign because it lacked a Bill of Rights. He set-forth...
Click on the image for a larger view. On the 14th of April, 1789, Charles Thomson - the secretary of Congress - had a very important trip to make.&nb...
Nine days after the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush addresses a joint session of the 107th Congress. He pledges to defend America's fre...
Official translation of Himmler's speech to a gathering of SS men in which he directly discuses the "evacuation" of Jewish people. In the speech he st...
This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...
This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...
This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...
This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...
This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...
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