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John Quincy Adams as secretary of state; oil on panel by Gilbert Stuart, 1818. White House, Washington, D.C.

A detail of a plate commemorating the 1790 Civil Constitution of the Clergy showing a priest swearing allegiance to the French state. The text translates as "I swear to maintain with all my power the Constitution"...

Caricature depicting the separation of the church and the state, published in Le Rire, 1905. National Library of France, Paris.

Portrait of James Monroe as Secretary of State in 1816, the year he was elected president of the US. Oil on canvas portrait by John Vanderlyn, 1816. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

We all live in states today, and Thomas Hobbes has a good claim to have been the first person to articulate this concept in its modern sense. The intention of Hobbes’s civil science was...

This video is a historical simulation of a Mesopotamian city-state. This must be a very early representation as there is not formal Ziggurat.

Homolovi State Park in Winslow, AZ, in the US serves as a center of research for the late migration period of the Ancestral Puebloan people and the Hopi from the 1200s to the late 1300s CE. (Video produced by KAET-TV...

Cahokia Mounds, some 13 km north-east of St Louis, Missouri, is the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico. It was occupied primarily during the Mississippian period (800—1400), when it covered...

The social contract is an idea in philosophy that at some real or hypothetical point in the past, humans left the state of nature to join together and form societies by mutually agreeing which rights they would enjoy and how they...

Belgian Congo was a colony of Belgium from 1908 until 1960. Prior to that, the region had been the Congo Free State (created in 1885), which was effectively a private enterprise of King Leopold II...