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 his slave ordeal is over, Solomon Northup brings charges against the people who wrongfully sold him into slavery. Because a black person cannot ...
Charles Schenck, secretary general of the Socialist Party of America, believes the military draft is unconstitutional.
King George III is unwillingtocompromise with the colonies in order to avoid a long and costly war.
Albert Einstein is the first to understand that matter can become energy and theorizes the equation (E=mc2).
North Korea has nuclear weapons with the range to reach Alaska.
During the U.S. Civil War, people who live in Confederate states write books and use currency made specifically for them.
By 1904, when this photo was taken aboard a bark called Sunbeam, not much had changed in the method by which whalers removed spermaceti (high-quality ...
Geologists use sound waves to locate oil beneath the surface of ground and water.
Howard Hughes' father, along with many others, was a fortune-seeker lured by Texas oil.
Olaudah Equiano was one of the first African slaves to live through slavery and then write about it.
Ivan becomes addicted to mercury and falls from grace into madness.
Expertsbelievethe Olmec civilization is thefirst societyin Mesoamerica and that they have awritten formof language.
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