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.
Beginning in 776 BC and lasting 1,000 years, Greeks gather in Olympia, sacred home of Zeus, to compete in athletics.
Read and listen to Dr. Armnad D'Angour's Olympic poem for the London 2012 games.
Much like the other beaches, Omaha Beach has its share of heavy fighting and death on D-Day.
In 1995, Mandela and South Africa create a slogan to unite the whole country behind their rugby team: "One Team, One Country."
Without food or supplies soldiers on Bataan cannot resist Japanese advances. They are angry that MacArthur left and know that surrender is near.
Operation Anadyr takes place when Soviet troops and ballistic weapons go to Cuba.
Operation Mongoose is a failed US-government attempt to overthrow Castro and communism in Cuba.
By 1992, Somali famine is terrible. Rebel leaders fight each other with weapons from the Soviet Union. The UN asks the US to begin Operation Restore H...
Hitler mistakenly assumes that the Russians cannot mount a counterattack.
Poe's gambling and borrowing leads to debt; left on his own, he leaves Virginia and returns to Boston as a literary critic.
Michael Cassius McDonald creates the first organized crime syndicate in Chicago.
Oswiecim, Poland is the location of Auschwitz because the Polish army is already there.
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