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.
In 1704, Britain imposed “Penal Laws” which governed the conduct of Irish Catholics. Over the decades, those restrictive laws substantiall...
Britain imposed "Penal Laws" on Irish Catholics in 1704. This image highlights some of the more onerous laws which adversely impacted Irish-Cath...
The First Worcester Edition of A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly i...
Liao Cheng-Chih was the Vice-Chair of the China Peace Committee in 1964. On the 20th of July, that year, he addressed a rally during which he in...
What did the world look like in 450 BC? This map provides a birds-eye view - according to the History of Herodotus. Click on the image for a mo...
Image of a facsimilie copy of the Abdication Letter that Tsar Nicholas II was forced to sign.
Image of a facsimilie copy of the Abdication Letter that Tsar Nicholas II was forced to sign.
Known as a great emancipator for slaves, Abraham Lincoln took a different view regarding Native Americans when he issued an Executive Order for Navajo...
This document, one of America's top treasures, is Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address. The edits are in the President's own handwriting.Th...
This image depicts Abraham Lincoln's original letter (dated May 23, 1860) in which he accepts his party's nomination as candidate for President of the...
America elected Abraham Lincoln as their 16th President on the 6th of November, 1860. The United States was on the verge of Civil War, at the ti...
When Mary Elizabeth Jenkins - the future Mary Surratt - was twelve years old, her mother sent her to a Catholic boarding school in Alexandria. I...
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