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.
Runaway slaves need to be creative to avoid capture.
William Still, a freeborn black man and Father of the Underground Railroad, shares accounts of slaves who take the passage to freedom.
In Norse mythology, trolls are supernatural and dangerous beings.
The Mahdi, wants to rid the Sudan of British and Egyptian influences and make the Sudan a pure Islamic state.
There is bad blood between the Earps, the Clantons, and the McLaurys.
A tsunami wave strikes and destroys a commuter train and nearby villages in Sri Lanka.
View videos and listen to stories from tsunami survivors who explain their account of the destruction.
Tule Lake internment camp allow students to take class and families to grow crops.
King James lives a dramatic life with literary aspirations and rumors about his relationships with the men in his court.
Because Churchill ordered all the code-breaking hardware to be destroyed at Bletchley Park, after Germany surrendered, original devices did not surviv...
William Tyndale is largely responsible for the King James Version of the Bible, but his work is also burned.
T-Rex is an extinct, meat-eating dinosaurfirst found in 1902 by Barnum Brown.
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