Ideas about good and bad behavior in our personal relations, online actions and business practices to moral philosophy examining concepts of right and wrong - all this is in the field of ethics.
Edgardo Mortara is a Jewish child, living in a Papal State, who is legally removed from his home under canon laws regarding baptism.
Szpilman survives the ravages of Warsaw, and then meets Hosenfeld, a German officer who saves his life.
John Newton wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace" years after a dangerous sea voyage.
Solid rocket boosters used in shuttle launches show a potential O-ring design flaw.
While living among his parishioners, Van Gogh's perspective of the mining families changes; then he begins to draw them.
Famine and poverty follow the failed potato crop of 1845.
After he turned 21, Abraham Lincoln left his family home to make his own way in the world.
Nicholas' daughters survive the first hail of bullets because the gems sewn into their clothing provide some protection from the bullets.
Disregarding death threats due to his race, Brashear graduates from diving school.
Mary Dyer defies Puritan authorities and leaves Massachusetts with Hutchinson, but makes the mistake of going back to England.
Blacks are in favor of forced busing to get educational equality, but whites protest.
K-19 suffers a potential nuclear meltdown from cracks in the primary cooling tube.