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.
Many die in Ireland, but those who escape to America face many more hardships.
Neither the Russians nor the US will budge on their positions about Cuba and the missiles.
Russians are installing medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba with enough power to kill 80 million Americans.
Drs. Johan Hultin and Jeffrey Taubenberger study preserved tissue samples from WWI soldiers and from an Inuit woman to conclude the flu virus most lik...
Discovered in caves of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls are the oldest-known surviving manuscripts of the Hebrew Scriptures.
John Felton, an angry soldier whose income is cut, walks 60 miles to stab Buckingham with a butcher's knife.
Sir Walter Raleigh serves Elizabeth until her death in March 1603; he is then beheaded for treason by her successor, King James I.
Former Tsar Nicholas, his wife, his son, his four daughters and four of their assistants are shot in the cellar of their exiled home.
Pilate tries to reason with Jesus' captors, then orders his punishment and gives him to the soldiers for execution.
In writing his opinion, in the case of Marbury v Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall creates the concept of "judicial review," empowering the U.S. Su...
On the second floor of this rented house, Thomas Jefferson helps create the Declaration of Independence.
Standard 8-3.1 The tensions between the Upcountry and Lowcountry and the economic struggles the state faced.
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