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.
Previously the St. Petersburg home of Russian Tsars, the Winter Palace is now home to the Hermitage Museum.
When James Donovan negotiated for the exchange of Rudolf Abel and Francis Gary Powers, he worked with an East German lawyer named Wolfgang Vogel.
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...
Image of a portrait photograph of the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson.
This drawing - featuring a "Warplant" - was a political cartoon which ran during the World War I era.
The Center of Military History, for the United States Army, features a story about Hamilton's military background.
Zachary Taylor, a war hero during the US/Mexican war, became America's 12th President.
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