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.
Clara Barton raises money for the homeless and sends strawberry plants to farmers.
Two superpowers - the US and the USSR - send back-and-forth letters, each demanding that the other remove missiles from nearby countries.
Japanese-American business owners close and sell their business.
Chapter 1 of How the Game of Monopoly Saved Over 10,000 Soldiers
Albert Nieman discovers how to separate the alkaloid base of the coca plant. Thereafter, many products now contain small amounts of cocaine.
Cocaine and chocolate are from different plants; cocaine is from the coca plant, chocolate is from the cacao plant.
In France, some wine contains cocaine. Because of Atlanta's early experiment with prohibition, however, John S. Pemberton uses fruit oils instead of c...
Navajo code talkers prevent a massacre of Marines on Saipan, although the Japanese continue to fight.
King George III is unwilling to compromise with the colonies in order to avoid a long and costly war. The colonists are willing to rebel to overthrow ...
Color photos of the Great Depression provide a glimpse into the lives of people enduring hardship while still keeping love in their lives.
Columbia's first mission, in 1981, proved that a space shuttle could lift-off, travel in space and return to earth.
Some cultures consider comets as omens of disasters.
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