Ethics Chapters

John Rabe, John Magee and Dr. Robert O. Wilson provide eyewitness stories about Japanese killings in Nanjing (Nanking).

At 7:53 a.m. the Japanese first attack American planes and then begin to bomb "Battleship Row"; finally at 7:58 a.m., air raid sirens begin.

If cracks are not repaired to contain the coolant, the K-19 could explode due to a meltdown.

Creating his famous character, Ebenezer Scrooge, Charles Dickens walks the streets of London during the fall of 1843. He ponders the best way to tell...

Though African Americans were free, after the Civil War, the U.S. federal government (including the federal courts) allows the practice of racial segr...

The Catholic Church laws, in 19th-century Italy, legally allow baptized Jewish children to be taken from their families.

Risking his own life, Bass agrees to write letters for Platt (Solomon Northup), alerting people in the North that he is wrongfully being held as a sla...

The Yankees explode a tunnel under the Confederate lines but are trapped in the crater as the Confederates rally and kill them.

A marriage gets really tested when one of the two individuals becomes care-giver for the other.

Born into a lower class, Becky Sharp's goal is to live in "high society," so she tries to marry into it.

Ludwig becomes so obsessed with gaining custody of his nephew, Karl, that he does not compose for two years.

Religious freedom is not available in Tudor England for people who, among other things, want to translate the Bible into English (or even quote from i...