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.
As he transforms the USSR into an industrial powerhouse, Stalin will pay for his plans with Ukrainian grain.
Stalin's orders to take Ukrainian grain, between 1932-33, cause people throughout Ukraine to starve.
On April 30, 1789, George Washington becomes America's president. He is unanimously elected for his first term of office (as he was for his second).
KLM 4805 requests and starts the take-off process without clearance.
As they investigate a deadly virus which is infecting and killing people in the Yambuku area of Zaire, investigators decide to name the virus after a ...
The CIA studies photographs showing the position of rail spurs, camp buildings, and vehicles.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his twin sister Sabine were born in Breslau, Germany on February 4, 1906. An extremely bright young man, he shocked his family...
There were not enough planes and guns to defend the Philippines from the Japanese.
Bombs strike the USS Arizona causing it to explode; 900 sailors die and the ship sinks.
Americans land on Utah Beach, one of five Normandy beaches attacked on D-day.
Vasily Zaitsev is one of the Soviet snipers who helps the Russians overcome the Germans.
Vasily Zaitsev is a famous and successful Russian sniper.
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