Government Documents

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.

ANATOMY OF A CONTROVERSY:Anatoly F. Dobrynin’s Meeting With Robert F. Kennedy, Saturday, 27 October 1962 by Jim Hershberg - Article online at ...

This image is a facsimile of the signatures which appear on the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

In this image we see Susan B. Anthony's personal copy of her trial transcript.  She was accused, tried and found guilty of unlawfully voting in t...

The governor of Missouri, Thomas Crittenden, was upset that Frank and Jesse James eluded capture.

Image of a fascimilie copy of the original German transcript of Himmler's speech.

When William Banning lost his son George in Korea, the bereaved father—from New Canaan, Connecticut—sent a letter to President Truman. &nb...

Bass Reeves was one of 200 Deputy U.S. Marshals appointed to help Judge

This is part of the original report which Lt. Col. George Armistead prepared regarding his defense of Ft. McHenry on September 24, 1814.  It was ...

This is another section of the Armistead report which details the battle of Fort McHenry, and Baltimore, in September of 1814. 

In concluding their October 2, 1963 report on the situation in Vietnam, McNamara and Taylor recognize the likelihood that Americans would not support ...

As part of their report on a mission to South Vietnam, McNamara and Taylor recommended to President Kennedy that a training program be established so ...

Naval Captain Gallery issued an order to maintain secrecy regarding the recovery of the German Submarine U-505.  His order clearly stated: ...

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