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.
Among other criticisms of women's rights in general, and the Declaration of Sentiments in particular, we read the following from the August 1, 1848 is...
During World War I, Britain's Ministry of Food enforced the country's ration orders. Penalties were stiff. On 29 August 1918, for example, a vi...
Image of a broadside printing called The Defense of Fort McHenry, which detailed the background for Francis Scott Key's poem. Click on the ...
Thomas Clarkson and his colleagues on the "Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade" wanted to create a visual picture of a slave's life during ...
A detailed map of Somalia.
This image depicts page 1 of a September 14, 1942 letter - from Philip Johnston to the U.S. Marine Corps Commandant - requesting permission to jo...
This image depicts page 2 of the letter Philip Johnston sent to the U.S. Marine Corps Commandant on September 14, 1942. The Navajo Code...
Lt. General DeWitt's recommendation, to evacuate Japanese-Americans from their homes in the Pacific-coast region, page 2. Click on the image for a be...
Rail lines pass directly through the Mumbai area of Dharavi. That is how the children, depicted in the film Slumdog Millionaire, can make their ...
After Senator Kennedy was shot, police officers searched Sirhan Sirhan’s home in Pasadena. They found a spiral-bound notebook which appear...
When African-American soldiers returned home, after fighting in World War I, they faced serious discrimination in the States. They had fought, and die...
Cornelius Jacob Langenhoven wrote the lyrics to "Die Stem Van Suid-Afrika" ("The Spirit of South Africa") in 1918. Marthinus Lourens de Villiers...
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