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.
Politicians (Bundy and McNamara) with little knowledge of Vietnamese history want to defeat Communism, and look for an excuse to fight North Vietnam.
Pvt. Joseph McDonald receives the radar message from Opana Point but cannot get anyone to believe him about the incoming Japanese planes until it is t...
Lizzie is a suspect in the of killing her family because she is home alone, she seems greedy, and her testimony is suspicious.
Although Lizzie's documents still exist, a Supreme Court ruling protects the papers of the deceased from the public.
In 1993, evidence surfaces where James Maybrick claims to be Jack the Ripper.
Family members are put in different camps where they work on large projects, such as the White Sea Canal.
Scholars disagree about the reliability of slave memoirs and oral histories.
Jim Crow Laws, named after a character in a minstrel show, become a synonym for legal segregation.
Facts about Bobby's fatal shooting are still in dispute today.
In 1920, the 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony died before that happened.
Susan continues to fight for women's suffrage until she dies aged 86, fourteen years before passage of 19th Amendment in 1920.
Questions remain about the Allied lack of action toward the death camps, but all the clues are not available until after the war.
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