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.
Samuel Clemens, writing as Mark Twain, creates a character called Huckleberry Finn. Huck is based on a real person called Tom Blankenship.
In 1934, Charles Howard hires Tom Smith as a trainer to help him break into horse racing; Tom tells him to buy Seabiscuit.
Thomas builds Monticello on his family's land in Virginia.
Every month, PG&E sends 750,000 gallons of chrome 6 wastewater to the unlined ponds in Hinkley.
Hexavalent chromium (Chromium VI), a cancer-causing chemical used by Pacific Gas & Electric Company in Hinkley, poisoned the groundwater of the co...
CIA agent, Tony Mendez, creates a plan and leads a rescue mission for six U.S. diplomats in Tehran.
KLM 4805 taxies down the runway directly toward Pan Am 1736, unaware of the risk the bad weather causes.
Evidence is too much for both Loeb and Leopold who both confess to the crime.
Learn about Robert E. Lee and the famous military leaders for the Confederate States of America.
Learn about Ulysses S. Grant and the other famous Union military leaders.
Churchill, Truman, and Stalin plan to meet in the Potsdam suburb of Berlin in July 1945 to determine the political fate of Europe.
Schenck is charged and found guilty of conspiring to cause disobedience in the military.
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