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 Bowery (meaning "farm" in Dutch) changes from a rural place to a jammed area with poor immigrants.
Dickie Eklund becomes a promising boxer from the depressed city of Lowell, Massachusetts.
General Kimura meets no resistance when the Japanese land in the Philippines; they enter Manila on January 2, 1942.
Leopold and Loeb lure Bobby Franks into a rental car where Loeb allegedly kills the young boy with a chisel.
Read a poem by a 2007 McMullen County Sophomore English Class as a tribute to those killed in the Virginia Tech Massacre.
America captures its first U-boat, the U-505, off the coast of French West Africa.
The Supreme Court gets its own kind of veto power after Chief Justice Marshall's opinion in Marbury v Madison..
After arguments over everything from a crown to a set of black pearls, Mary and Elizabeth's tombs now rest side by side at Westminster Abbey.
The English put Joan on trial for witchcraft, sorcery, heresy and for wearing men's clothes; they believe a teenage girl cannot beat them in battle.
C.S. Lewis sets the Chronicles of Narnia in his beloved County Down, in Northern Ireland.
During the 1930s circuses thrive, look at old circus posters.
Fires burn for three days after the earthquake, leaving thousands dead and the city in ruins.
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