Social Studies Documents

This image depicts extensive damage to Port Royal, Jamaica following a massive earthquake on June 7, 1692.   It is based on a copper etching...

East Chicago's official web site provides the following information about this Indiana city: Incorporated in 1893 as a railroad and steel town, Eas...

The only other Pilgrim to write about life in Plimoth Plantation was Edward Winslow.  He published his book, Good Newes from New England, in 1624...

In March of 1945, Albert Einstein wrote another letter to President Roosevelt.  He urged caution as America moved forward with the development of...

Although he was a pacifist, who despised war, Albert Einstein also realized that if Hitler and his scientists were the first to discover how to build ...

This image depicts the second page of a letter - from Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt - which changed the world.

In 1932, Al Capone was on his way to prison.  Connected to another prisoner with a three-foot-long chain, he tried to bury his face in his should...

On his way to prison, Al Capone made an interesting observation about Prohibition and the outlawing of alcoholic beverages in America: They ought t...

The back-cover of this work tells more about it and its main subject ... Eliot Ness.

After Elizabeth Packard began expressing her views on religious topics, in a Bible-study class held in her village of Manteno (Illinois), her husband ...

This image depicts Princess Elizabeth, as a young teenager.  An unknown artist created this portrait, circa 1546.  It is part of the Royal C...

Elizabeth Packard's legal troubles began when she was asked to join a Bible-study class led by a deacon in her church.  Abijah Dole was unable t...