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.
The Great Depression begins after the 1929 stock market crash and is the worst economic disaster in American history.
Combatants on all sides rely on horses; learn about the role that horses fill during WWI.
Hosenfeld, who keeps a diary of the acts committed by Hitler and the Nazis, dies in the war camps even though Szpilman tries to help him.
Despite half a million dead and injured and a 1953 Armistice, Korea remains divided.
Once he gives up the throne, Nicholas and his family live in exile. Their lives are now very different from their royal upbringing.
Once he gives up the throne, Nicholas and his family live a life in exile very different from their royal upbringing.
While he is still a child, Howard Hughes unexpectedly loses both of his parents.
Because of his love of flying, Howard starts an aircraft company and advances aviation.
Inspired by his uncle's career, Howard Hughes becomes a successful movie producer.
Going against accepted standards, Howard Hughes asks the courts for the right to manage his family business before he turned 21. He won his case.
Edgardo, kidnapped from his Jewish family, becomes a well-educated, world-famous priest who credits the servant girl for saving him, and his Inquisito...
Children help out by rationing, recycling, and helping to support their families.
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