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.
Henry Mucci and his special forces surprise the Japanese and rescue prisoners from Cabanatuan.
With help from his top advisers, who pave the way for a change in Britain, Henry VIII gets his divorce and marriage annulment, from Catherine of Arago...
Although he and Catherine of Aragon have a daughter, Princess Mary, Henry VIII wants a living son. This leads to problems with his marriage.
Heorot is the Danish King Hrothgar's mead-hall, which Beowulf defends against the monster Grendel.
T. C. Williams High School hires a black head coach, Herman Boone, to lead the school's desegregated football team.
Postal workers on the Titanic try to save letters and packages.
Chapter 3 of How the Game of Monopoly Saved Over 10,000 Soldiers
Dickie goes to jail for carjacking, kidnapping, and armed robbery; he emerges a changed man.
Heinrich Himmler plans to hide the "evacuation" of the Jews from the world, assuring the Nazis that this is a noble cause.
Learn about mid-19th century New York fashion, places, people and facts.
The pillory is a form of punishment in Colonial America, but it traces its roots to Britain.
Hitler, sensing the Germans might be losing Stalingrad, forbids his generals from surrendering.
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