Social Studies Chapters

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.

The captain searches for nearby submarines to take his radiation-sick sailors.

Ultimately Jews become scapegoats during the medieval plague; 2,000 burn to death in Strasbourg on Valentine's Day, 1349.

Margaret Mitchell changed the name of her lead character to Scarlett from Pansy after looking through Irish literature and finding "Scarlett" was an I...

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.

Examine paintings and engravings of the American West before the transcontinental railroad.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects more than two million Americans each year.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder which affects more than two million Americans each year.

A new case declares that the Supreme Court decision about busing discriminates against non-black children; the law changes once more.

Thirty years after the Swann case ruling, white plaintiffs claim race based admission policies are biased and want the previous ruling overturned.

Not long after the Kent State tragedy, the Supreme Court orders schools to integrate immediately.

The Supreme Court ruling inSwann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education permits busing students to achieve racial integration.

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