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.
Thomas Cromwell, who becomes a key advisor to King Henry VIII, grows-up in Putney, outside London, with a very difficult father.
As a high-level advisor to Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell tries to help the King get a divorce from Catharine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Boleyn.
After he returns from time on the Continent, where he learns several languages and practical aspects of running a business, Thomas Cromwell has a grow...
Who was "Stonewall" Jackson, how did he get his nickname and why did he become so famous?
Read a poem about people not involved in the massacre but who grieve with the rest of the world.
Dostoevsky completes his novel just in time and continues to gamble until he overcomes that addiction; he then focuses on writing novels. He dies soo...
Before her death, Thomas promises his wife that he will never marry again and he will care for their daughters.
Meet the senior officers of Titanic's fatal voyage. What are their responsibilities?
102 passengers, 41 of whom are Pilgrims, set out in the Mayflower on a late-fall journey across the sea to Virginia.
Lee Harvey Oswald works in Dallas. He knows the President's motorcade route will pass by the building in which he works.
Even though Elizabeth avoids Mary in life, they are bound by death with adjoining graves.
Before John Wilkes Booth plans an assassination, he plans to kidnap the President and "carry him off" to Richmond, Virginia..
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