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.
When we use trees to make things, we produce waste and destroy habitats so we must conserve this natural resource.
Clarence Darrow is hired to represent the defendants, and he quickly withdraws the "Not Guilty" plea.
Within 34 seconds, the Hindenburg catches fire, remains level, but then bursts into flames and crashes. There are eyewitness reports, movies and photo...
King John continues to fight with the nobles until his death. Eight hundred years later the Magna Carta is still an important document.
King Bruce wants to atone for his mistakes and orders that upon his death, his heart be cut out and taken on a Crusade.
King Bruce wants to atone for his mistakes and orders that upon his death, his heart be cut out and taken on a Crusade.
Joan becomes a hero in history and her accusers become villains; many of those had most-unfortunate endings.
Did you know that the language of "Chivalry" - or the language of Knights - was French?
Black Death (or pestilence) gets its name from black boils which appear on the bodies of infected people.
A bacterium, Yersinia pestis, causes Bubonic plague; the oriental rat flea transmits the disease to humans from black rats.
From the ancient to the modern world, people have tried to understand rabies, but it remains a mysterious albeit deadly illness. At least today, we kn...
The Magna Carta grants certain liberties to noblemen and, years later, becomes a basis for American rights and liberties.
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