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.
A DEA agent guards 5,137 pounds of cocaine seized from a Panamanian ship docked in Miami, Florida.
One reviewer, writing in The New York Times, has said this book is: "An invaluable record of an unforgettable American calamity."
President Nixon always said he didn't know about a massive cover-up, but then a ''smoking gun'' tape was released. It led to the President's resignati...
Image of a political cartoon called Move over We can't stay in a holding pattern forever, by Herb Block and published July 29, 1973.
In 1925, King George V asked his second son, the Duke of York (also known as Bertie or Prince Albert) to close the British Empire Exhibition at Wemble...
During the attack on Pearl Harbor, the USS West Virginia was badly damaged.
The U.S. Constitution defines the type of government for the country at the federal level.
When Americans vote for their President, they are actually voting for people called electors who then cast their ballots for President and Vice Presid...
How much power should America's branches of government have?
The war for independence was finally over, but a cash-strapped Congress had, for years, failed to pay the Continental Armys officers and soldiers. How...
William H. Seward - who had served as New York's 12th governor (between 1839-1842) and as New York's U.S. Senator - wanted to become America's Preside...
Used to getting his way, Boss Tweed frequently bent the law in his own favor.
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