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.

When people could not afford to buy gas or cars, during the Great Depression, they returned to the use of horse-drawn wagons.

What happened in Ukraine, during 1932-33, which caused people to describe a famine in that country as Holodomor ("death by starvation)?

During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain had a shortage of sailors. To fix this problem, "press gangs" roamed the country's seaports where they kidnapped m...

As Henry VIII's troops continued to terrorize the Scots - after the Scottish Parliament refused to approve the Treaty of Greenwich whereby Mary, Queen...

President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 into law during that year. Later, in December, he addressed the Congress with reasons w...

Iolani palace is now very modern, Old, and had a very long history.

In spite of censorship in her time, Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) remains one of Russia's most-loved poets of the 20th century.

When he was 32 years old, James Madison (then a member of the Continental Congress) fell in love with the daughter of a colleague.

James Meredith wants to become the first African-American to enroll at Ole Miss, but segregationists have other ideas. Thus begins a battle between ci...

In February of 1761, James Otis opposed taxation laws imposed on the American Colonies by the British Parliament.

Before the Pearl Harbor bombing, Japanese-Americans lived and worked on Terminal Island. After the bombing, their homes were destroyed and their way o...

Six aircraft carriers ferried 423 Japanese planes to attack Pearl Harbor. Some of the planes were equipped with B5N2 torpedoes whose pilots flew in a ...

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