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.
This map, from PBS' "American Experience," depicts the areas where whales were captured between 1790 and 1924. Data for the map was retrieved from a s...
Germans force Jewish families to leave the Warsaw Ghetto on trains to a concentration camp.
Does Mary know that Booth, her son John, and others are meeting at her boardinghouse to plot the kidnapping of the president?
8-4.1 Importance of agriculture in antebellum South Carolina
A murder attempt on Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, leader of the Huguenots (Protestants), starts a massacre.
Dwellings are destroyed to ensure that the homeless of Ireland have no place to go.
Photos taken early in 1944 show evidence of gas chambers before the Nazis try to tear down the buildings and leave.
As a sign of freedom, the American colonies begin printing their own money.
As a sign of freedom, the colonies begin printing their own money.
The court vindicates Boone, but he leaves Kentucky and never gets over the criminal accusations which had been leveled against him.
President Kennedy's Executive Committee (Ex Comm) is a group of senior advisors who meet with JFK throughout the missile crisis.
Wallace is dragged through the city, tortured, hanged, beheaded, drawn, and quartered.
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