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.
Thousands ofPuritans leaveGreat Britain for the West Indies and Massachusetts (known as "The Great Migration").
Stretching four thousand miles through the entire country, the Great Wall of China is a man-made wonder of the world.
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin envisions and creates rigid airships that are used for transportation and war.
The guillotine brings death to thousands of people during the French Revolution's "Reign of Terror."
North Vietnam attacks American naval ships, on 2 August 1964, but they do not react.
November 5 is "Guy Fawkes Day" because, in 1605, a plot to kill the King was thwarted when Fawkes was found with 36 barrels of gunpowder under the Hou...
Death comes slowly in a hanging cage; the accused is exposed to the elements and starved.
Despite his nickname as "The Hanging Judge," Isaac C. Parker personally opposed capital punishment. Even so, he gave hundreds of convicted criminals t...
Thomas Edison's new film company records destroyed boats and stranded ships in Galveston's harbor.
Long before the days of the printing press, Hebrew scribes copy the Scriptures by hand.
The Heretic's Fork is an extremely painful way to die. Being in a stock is less painful but could cause the person humiliation.
TheHimalayan Mountains claim nine of the world's ten highest peaks, including the highest Mount Everest.
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