How do we make a "sound judgment" in a culturally diverse society? How do we know the best path to follow in an interdependent world? These stories, based on social-studies, help us to understand that personal and environmental relationships impact our lives and our world.
Often royalty are the only people who can afford illuminated manuscripts.
An artist in his own right, Rudolf Abel used that profession, plus photography, as his cover in America. No one suspected that he was anything but wha...
A rival, Rufus Griswold, changes Poe's work and private letters; then he publishes the fakes.
Before 1995, no black players are members of the Springboks, South Africa's rugby team.
In 1870, Charles MacLaren finds the ruins of the city of Troy after following landscape descriptions from Homer in the Iliad. Later the city of Mycena...
Although the Soviet Union never acknowledged that its policies caused the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, Russia acknowledged it in 2003.
Improving its original design, Galileo uses the telescope to view the sky and planets.
Hitler seeks to conceal the sinking of the Gustloff and a second German vessel.
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 ...
Mary's Catholic supporters plot her escape and takeover of the English throne.
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.
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