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.
Explanation of how Sacajawea, a Shoshone, meets Lewis and Clark in a Mandan-Hidatsa village.
Sacajawea helps Lewis and Clark to locate the Shoshone tribe. She discovers the tribal chief is her long-lost brother. He recognizes her and is eager ...
The Armada must return home by a northern route that takes them around the top of Scotland and down the rocky coast of west Ireland.
The Catholic Church makes Nicholas a saint and his feast day is the anniversary of his death: December 6.
Saint Nicholas of Bari is kind to children, protects sailors and gives generously of himself and his material possessions.
Huns are expert horsemen and can stand upright on a racing horse while firing deadly arrows.
Dostoevsky reluctantly agrees to work with Anna Snitkina, using the new science of stenography to meet his deadline.
Ultimately Jews become scapegoats during the medieval plague; 2,000 burn to death in Strasbourg on Valentine's Day, 1349.
Ted Narracott, a Boer-War veteran, buys a Thoroughbred colt because he needs a horse to work his farm.
A collection of French photographs shows Vietnam during the French rule.
See pictures of places where Barrie and the Davies boys meet, play and live.
Examine paintings and engravings of the American West before the transcontinental railroad.
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