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Born in 1751, James Madison, the fourth President of the United States was brought up in Orange County, Virginia.

For each performance at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London there are 700 cheap seats on offer, for which visitors pay a bargain theatre ticket price of £5

The American Constitution protects many rights of American citizens. Among the most significant is the right to a jury trial.

The Prophet Mohammed cartoon row, the British teacher teddy-bear debacle, death threats to Salman Rushdie & incarcerated Bulgarian Nurses; may signal a change in America.

A divided court had invalidated crucial New Deal legislation in 1935 and 1936. Determined to save future legislation, FDR embarked on a plan to increase court membership.

Visitors to Turkey are spoiled for choice. One of the highlights are the mountain tombs, the river and turtle watching in Dalyan.

A look into the life and deeds of New Orleans' most colorful pirate.

Although the Constitution has been amended numerous times through a lengthy process, many proposed amendments never made it beyond the House of Representatives.

The paparazzi have become a permanent staple of the celebrity lifestyle. The question is; do they have a right to do what they do?

Following the declaration of war, Congress passed numerous acts designed to increase the president's war powers over virtually every aspect of American society.

The proclamation that all men are created equal took a long time to fulfill in a nation that originally denied political rights to all but propertied white males.

Expanding the commerce clause to regulate interstate commerce by the Congress and promote national welfare began with the precedent 1824 Steamboat Case.

In the words of Founding Father Ben Franklin: "They, who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security."

By March 1942 112,000 Japanese-Americans were moved from the west coast into 16 concentration camps on the presumption that their loyalties might not be trusted.

Regional wars, housing and credit crises, international policies, global warming and climate change will determine history's view of The Bush Doctrine.

Sensing the need to provide assistance to European democracies under attack, FDR and the Congress committed US support as early as November 1939.

In 1819 the Supreme Court decided McCulloch v. Maryland, addressing the constitutionality of the national bank and the right of states to tax federal agencies.

Early Twentieth Century Congressional Democrat and Republican Progressives work together to expand the power of the electorate through passage of the 17th Amendment.

Dred Scott's residency in Illinois and Wisconsin should have made him a freedman but the US Supreme Court disagreed, declaring the 1820 Compromise unconstitutional.

The 1860 census dispels myths about Southern slavery but also allows the researcher to develop new conclusions regarding the role of slavery and the coming of war.

When nearly half a million railroad workers threatened to strike and disrupt interstate commerce, Woodrow Wilson went before Congress requesting emergency legislation.

The Nullification Crisis resulted from federal passage of two protective tariffs, prompting men like John C. Calhoun to assert state sovereignty over federal law.

The attack on the USS Greer was used by the Roosevelt administration to promote sympathy for the Allied cause and to weaken strong isolationist convictions.

An illogical compromise over representation was reached to enable the "slave" states to be be part of United States.

In the case of (We the People) vs. Scooter Libby: giving, lending, abetting, deliberately offering information to the detriment of any US entity, be-it a person...

Following the Brown v Board of Education case, the growing Civil Rights Movement found support among white Americans confronted by a contradiction to equality & justice.

Although the former colonies were now fully independent, the new nation was plagued with problems in governance, commerce, and internal social concerns.

Ezra Pound is one of the most eminent American poets, but for his collaboration with Mussolini Pound spent 12 years in a criminal hospital in Washington.

The article explains how defining race, a term with no scientific meaning, led to racism. The development of racism has negatively impacted American society.

Attempts to link documents in the Western tradition with the expansion of popular political participation may be disingenuous and mythical.

Director, photographer and artist Sveva Costa Sanseverino talks about her vision, her life, Obama and the future of art.

The 1848 national election may have laid the groundwork for a decade of growing division between the North and the South through the issue of the extension of slavery.

The American Revolution contributed to the French Revolution both indirectly by changing ideas about government and directly by harming the French economy.

Following the assassination of President William McKinley in 1900, Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest president in American history to that point.

Despite a late start in terms of education, Woodrow Wilson nevertheless spent much of his life before the Presidency as one of America's great scholars.

Hoping to throw the election of 1948 into the House of Representatives, Southern "Dixiecrats" mobilized to stop federal anti-segregationist legislation.

The 1764 Sugar Act increased enforcement of revenue collection by eliminating smuggling, local corruption, and West Indies fraud in the exporting of French molasses.

According to a blue plaque on the wall of a school in a sleepy English market town, Thomas Hooker was the Father of American Democracy. But is this claim justified?

There were fourteen men who some may consider to have been America's first Presidents, even before the time of George Washington and the Constitution.

Presidential war-making since Korea has evolved into an Executive branch prerogative closely tied to conducting foreign policy and the role of Commander-in-Chief.