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.
Although he cannot hear all the notes with his ears, Beethoven writes some of the best-known symphonies of all times.
Operation Rolling Thunder demonstrates increased conflict with bombs and napalm dropped on Viet Cong structures.
Abagnale gets caught and sent to a reformatory school.
Children as well as adults must ration food and many other items.
A military commission holds the trial of Mary Surratt and other conspirators.
Almost 40 years later, upon review, Korematsu's conviction is overturned.
Wilberforce and others who oppose slavery struggle to convince the public to outlaw slavery.
Poe may be a victim of "cooping" when he is found ill and in distress in Baltimore. He dies alone in the hospital there.
Cornwallis wants to execute Wolfe Tone.
With help from France, Americans win the war when the British surrender at Yorktown.
Lewis and William Clark start the Corps of Discovery to explore the west; 45 men took food, supplies, gifts for Indians and rifles.
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