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.
As the day of the parade draws closer, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns meet Inez Milholland.
Tan Son Nhut, a Republic of Vietnam airbase near Saigon, was the scene of the last evacuation of Americans before the Southern capital fell in April o...
Charles Moore - Margaret Thatcher's authorized biographer - discusses his research on the differences, and similarities, between Mikhail Gorbachev, Ro...
When she became Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative government implemented radical policies to help Britain improve its economic po...
Seeing World War II through the eyes of those who fought it, and from the perspective of families who worried about their loved ones safety, Ken Burns...
During the Irish Civil War, brothers formerly united in their desire for a free-Ireland are split apart by a major disagreement.
Before the Doolittle Raiders flew to Tokyo, it seemed that Japan would win the war.
A man of contrasts who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson declared that all men were born equal.
It is said that "Soweto sneezed .
When Elizabeth I left the throne of Britain, her country was a very different place than it had been when she first assumed power.
After his marriage to Anne Boleyn - and the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth - Henry VIII decided to look elsewhere for a wife.
This clip, from "Harvest of Despair," continues the story of the great Ukrainian famine of 1932-33.
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