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.
In the late 1800s in Cuba, Father Benito Vines trains people to predict hurricanes. U.S. forecasters are reluctant to use his data.
Beulahs looks, a good story, publicity for her and Belva, and a young, male jury all play parts in her acquittal.
The judge in Dr. John Webster's murder trial allows the use of body parts as evidence, even though that is not a common practice in the 1850s.
At fifteen, Marie Antoinette leaves her home in Vienna and marries Louis-Auguste of France in a large wedding at the Palace of Versailles.
Even though the American public may not approve, this does not mean the one in power is wrong.
"Freedom Summer" results in terrible violence yet the civil-rights workers keep at their task of registering black voters.
See the towns in the West as they begin to form when people move to new areas of America's "wilderness."
The Japanese attack West Loch at Pearl Harbor and destroy US military and equipment bound for the battle of Saipan.
Robert E. Sticker created an oil painting interpreting the “Nantucket Sleigh Ride,” an adrenalin-producing event which occurred after whal...
The Tommy Gun (for General Thompson who invents it) becomes famous during the Prohibition-era for its use by gangsters in Chicago.
Throughout United States history we express our frustrations and pride in our country through the media.
Top-secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam leads to many federal-government lies being exposed.
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