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.
Newspaper article detailing the events of the assassination of President McKinley by witnesses at the scene. Click on the image for a better view.
This original document, from the U.S. Navy, announces the death of President Roosevelt to members of the Navy. The country was still at war when...
This is the obituary of Lena Basilone. It tells us that she never remarried, after the Iwo Jima death of her husband, John Basilone. Lena ...
This poem (noted in the document as "Lines") celebrates the life of the much-loved Confederate Lt. General Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson. His ...
Page from the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (also known as "Gustavus Vassa, The African"). One day the kidnapped boy, and other captive Africans, ...
This book, by the Pearl-Harbor historian Gordon W. Prange and his co-authors Donald M Goldstein and Katherine V Dillon, tells the story of the Decembe...
Image depicting the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, dated October, 1895. Click on the image for a better view.
On the 14th of October, 1774, the First Continental Congress declared their opposition to Parliament’s Coercive (Intolerable) Acts. This excerpt...
Image of the Declaration of Independence as it originally appeared in the Pennsylvania Packet in its issue of Monday, July 8, 1776. This facsimile sh...
Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet was one of Colonial America's most-influential newspapers. Its lead story - on July 8, 1776 - was the announcement ...
The "Female Department," of the Mechanic's Advocate, expresses disaste for women who seek equal treatment and the right to vote: They [suffragists]...
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