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.
With an intermediate stop in Richmond (Virginia), Solomon Northup (now known by his slave-name "Platt") spends time in another slave pen before he boa...
Mandela wants all people of South Africa to unite and believes support for the rugby team will bring the country together.
As he plots Garfield's death, the once-institutionalized Guiteau stalks the President.
Poe's bloody detective stories begin to mirror real life, including his wife's diagnosis of tuberculosis.
At 27, Poe falls in love with his cousin Virginia, whom he marries when she is 13.
The press and police cooperate to gain information, using fingerprints and a nickname, "Black Dahlia".
Since Bonhoeffer's death, German churches have had to explain why they did not speak out against Hitler.
As scholars try to understand why organized churches did little to resist Hitler and his Third Reich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the young Lutheran pastor, ...
In 1971, the U.S. is fighting a war in Vietnam that many Americansdo not support.
Jack the Ripper begins his crime spree by murdering a 42-year-old woman named Polly Nichols.
See the lyrics to songs that tell the plight of families hurt by alcohol abuse.
Critics charge that Judge Hunt denied Susan not only her right to vote, but also her right to a trial by jury.
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