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.
Bookcover image of Digging Up Tyrannosaurus Rex, by John Horner & Don Lessem.
The Bureau of Investigation had issued a "Wanted" poster for John Dillinger. After he was killed, at Chicago's Biograph Theater, the poster was ...
Fyodor Dostoevsky had a close encounter with a firing squad before he became a famous writer. At the last minute, Nicholas I (the Russian Tsar a...
The English word "Downpatrick" is based on the Irish word "Dún Pádraig" (which means "Patrick's Fort"). The town is located in Cou...
This map depicts the location of Downpatrick, where it is believed St. Patrick died. Click on the image for a greatly expanded view.
This document, from the National Archives, is the draft of President Reagan's famous speech which he delivered in Berlin. Included here is the p...
Image from the brochure Dr. Henry W. Greist: famed head of the world's farthest north hospital at Point Barrow, Alaska.
This map image depicts the location of the Republic of Ireland and its capital, Dublin. Click on the image for a better view.
This family tree depicts the genealogy for the House of Lorraine. It begins with Adalbert Herzog von Ober-Lothringen, in 1047, to the abdication...
Dunkirk - also spelled Dunkerque - is located in northern France. During late May and early June, of 1940, it was the scene of a disaster-in-the...
This image depicts the book cover of The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. Thanks for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (the publisher) and Goo...
Earthly Remains, published by British Museum Press, takes us into peat bogs, mummy tombs and other such places to investigate (among many other things...
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