Government Story Briefs

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.

Emily Hobhouse, a young British woman who witnessed conditions in concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, included the following passage...

Emperor Meiji (1852 - 1912) was also known as Meiji the Great. He ruled Japan from February 3, 1867 to the day he died on July 30, 1912.

During the days when the Federal Court had jurisdiction over Indian Territory, many people hanged on Ft. Smith's gallows. The National Park Service te...

Jefferson won the 1800 election, the federal government's program of excise taxes on Americans was abolished, however the role of government is still ...

In his oral history, Jack Delano tells us how he became a photographer with the Farm Security Administration.

WARNING: THIS CLIP EXPLAINS HOW HITLER AND HIS REGIME DEVELOPED "THE FINAL SOLUTION" AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE. Proceed with caution.

The First Amendment guarantees all Americans the right to freely express themselves.

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention issued a report on the 13th of September, 1787 preparing for the first federal elections.

Vorkuta, in Russia's northern climes, was once home to a Soviet-era forced labor camp.

Entitled "The Foundation of American Government," Hintemeister's art work is his interpretation of a key event in American history.

Forced by the Church to give-up working on astronomical matters, Galileo returns to his experiments on the laws of motion.

Gandhi urged a national strike after he returned to his country. The Amritsar Massacre soon followed.

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