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.
After the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution becomes effective, in 1868, many people believe it does not give women the right to vote. Susan B. A...
Anthony illegally votes in 1872 election. Political cartoons of the time, and later, scoffed at "woman suffrage."
This photo, online via the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, depicts an Enigma machine in use during World War II. Curators of the museum p...
Chapter 4 of How the Game of Monopoly Saved Over 10,000 Soldiers
The Wright brothers discover how to test lift and drag and how to use a propeller in the air.
This illustration, produced by Currier & Ives sometime between 1856 and 1907, depicts (in the foreground) whalers in an open boat hunting a Right ...
The plague lays waste to Asia and Europe; writings from the time suggest only one in ten people survive.
Throughout their ordeal, slave voices show that the human spirit can overcome almost anything.
Slaves are sold as property as though they are animals; many are beaten and families are split up.
Carl Brashear is born in 1931 to sharecropping parents, who live in Kentucky during the time of restrictive "Jim Crow Laws."
Packard's husband tries to send her away without any money or her children.
North Vietnamese (PAVN) General Phuong describes battle preparations for Ia Drang, where they began a five-phase attack against the South (ARVN).
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