Social Studies Chapters

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.

Giovanni Boccaccio writes Decameron, a first-hand account of behavior during the medieval plague; some people flee, while others enjoy life to the ful...

Meet some of the people who pack up their belongings and head west.

Unable to read or write their language, the rights of peasants are not important and their struggles ignored.

African-American slaves are bought and sold like animals in the country's system of chattel slavery.

As he does with the characters of the Michael Sullivan family, Max Allan Collins invents the town of Perdition, Michigan.

Perpignan is in southern France and home to Castillet, a former prison.

The survivors of Peshigo bury their dead and then rebuild their city.

Petersburg, Virginia is a strategically important town to the Confederates during the Civil War. Union leaders believe they can win the war if they c...

Peter the Hermit is a French man who goes from town to town preaching and motivating people to join the Crusade.

In 1994, the parties reach an agreement to arbitrate the case and place it into the hands of two retired judges.

By July and August of 1994, with the preconception win in their pockets, plaintiffs literally bombarded PG&E with six inches of motions to compel ...

The presence of hexavalent chromium (sometimes called "Chrome 6") in water turns the water bright yellow. This photo, by Cameron Hickey on behalf of t...

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