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 Home Guard locates deserters to return them to war; deserters hide in caves they construct.
Roger Boisjoly reports his thoughts after he watches the Challenger explosion.
The Capitol creates the Hunger games to demonstrate their power over the districts.
After Union soldiers leave, the South resumes racial discrimination and segregation as a way of life.
The Iron Maiden is another form of intense suffering and slow death.
Of all the painful ways to be tortured, the Judas Cradle has to be one of the most painful ways to die.
"Jurassic" is a period of history named for the Jura Mountains that border France and Switzerland.
While John F. Kennedy is president, his younger brother, Bobby Kennedy, is his Attorney General and trusted advisor.
James feels he has "divine rights" and authorizes a new English translation of the Bible, then dies leaving the throne to his son.
One of the early amateur teams playing in New York, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, adopts rules for the game.
Germany protests that neutral America allows pilots to fly in combat for France; the squadron's name changes to Lafayette Escadrille.
Szpilman's last radio concert and the end of cultural life in Warsaw before the war occur at the same time.
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