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.
In order to survive, starving men of the whaleship Essex resort to cannabilism, the very thing which kept them from seeking refuge at islands much-clo...
Lucas, Belon's son, describes living through the tsunami, the survivors, the hospital and rescue by his father and brothers.
On November 5, 1872 citing the 14th Amendment, Susan B. Anthony casts her vote in the Presidential election.
Susan and her sister Mary used the 14th Amendment to convince officials to let them register to vote.
For six months Frank is in a Malmo, Sweden prison before the Italian government prosecutes him.
In April 2009, a Mexican woman dies from a severe virus; soon many others are ill around the world. Scientists believe the H1N1 Swine Flu virus is the...
The Nazis swear secrecy and follow a strict set of rules.
Zaitsev trains Tania Chernova, a female Russian-American, who seeks revenge against the Germans.
One theory, about the Whitechapel-area muders, suggests that Prince Albert Victor is Jack the Ripper.
American colonials do not want to pay taxes to Britain when they cannot elect members of Parliament. Therein lie seeds of rebellion.
After the Swann case ruling, from the Supreme Court, T. C. Williams High School begins serving black and white students.
Disaster descended on Norway when the Nazis invaded, then occupied, the beautiful country for five years, beginning on April 9, 1940. This image depic...
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