Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.
Although Chicago has modern equipment, the city has far-too-few firefighters in 1871.
Chicago reporter Maurine Watkins, who covers the courts, turns two real murders into a play for a college class.
Maureen Watkinss play Chicago appears on Broadway in 1926 and later is the basis for the Bob Fosse musical.
Young children work with little hope of getting a formal education.
Child miners suffer from horrible conditions and have health problems including stunted growth.
Today child miners still work in some countries, but laws now protect them in the U.S. and the U.K.
American Lewis Hines photographs children in all sorts of manual labor jobs.
The Communist Chinese Forces (CCF) from Manchuria aid North Korea; they quickly overrun the US and their allies in the South.
Clara Barton raises money for the homeless and sends strawberry plants to farmers.
Japanese-American business owners close and sell their business.
Before the Hawaiian Islands were accidentally located by Captain Cook, clothing, as in most cultures, was different in Hawai'i depending on one's soci...
Navajo code talkers prevent a massacre of Marines on Saipan, although the Japanese continue to fight.
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