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

Law of Separation of Churches and the State, 1905. National Archives of France.

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.

A 1904 photograph of the state funeral procession in Prague of the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904).

The Bosporan Kingdom (c. 480 BCE–341 CE) emerged around the Cimmerian Bosporus (modern Kerch Strait) as a hybrid Greco-local state founded by Greek colonists from cities such...

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...