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.
Robespierre dies, by guillotine, on July 28, 1794. During the French Revolution, he was known by his supporters as "The Incorruptible," but it was he ...
How could Robespierre - a strong believer in equality and "the rights of man" - have created a system of justice which degenerated into a Reign of Ter...
The first witch trial, in Massachusetts, occurred soon after the Puritans arrived in America. In 1648, Margaret Jones was accused - and hanged - in Ch...
About 600 civil-rights marchersmade their way across Route 80, in Selma, on the 7th of March, 1965.
This clip - part two of "South Africa under Apartheid" - examines differing ways of political life between South African blacks and whites.
This clip - part three of "South Africa under Apartheid" - contains archival footage and historic interviews with people on both sides of the issue.
Hector Pieterson was a twelve-year-old student on the first day of the Soweto Uprising.
When the wind changed direction, a very unfortunate event for the Spanish fleet, Medina-Sedonia had no choice but to order his men to return home.
For most of the battlebetween the British and the Spanish ArmadaEnglish sailors were unable to break apart the tight crescent formation of the Spanish...
Ukrainian farmers and their families die, by the millions, as a result of Stalin's policies enforced against them. They are left with no grain to sell...
To this day, people in Ukraine (and elsewhere) remember the great famine of 1932-33.
Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who died, under suspicious circumstances, while in police custody.
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