Social Studies Documents

This graph depicts unemployment rates, during the Great Depression, and compares those percentages with other years (up to 2005). Click on the image ...

This graph depicts the dramatic downturn in American rates of production during the Great Depression.

When word of the disaster in Chicago spread throughout America, people (and businesses) in other cities generously donated funds to help the sufferers...

This list - a continued compilation indicating U.S. cities quickly responding to Chicago's cries for help - shows how supportive Americans were for Ch...

Throughout the country, Americans responded to Chicago's pleas for help.  When news of the disaster reached London - a city whose own residents h...

Ancient Greece was not a single, unified country.  Instead, it was a country of strong city states (like Sparta and Athens) which were sometimes ...

Bookcover image of SOS Wilhelm Gustloff. Die größte Schiffskatastrophe der Geschichte (SOS Wilhelm Gustloff. The Biggest Shipwreck in Histo...

This image depicts the handwriting of Edward of Woodstock, later known as The Black Prince.  It is online, courtesy the British Library.

In his book, The Underground Railroad, William Still tells the story of Henry Brown who escaped to freedom in a sealed box.  When the lid was rem...

Not only was Herodotus the "Father of History," he approached the entire subject from a different point of view - his own.  In his Histories, He...

Herodotus is known as the world's first historian and is often called the "Father of History."  He lived in the 5th century, BC. 

In its past, Bedloe’s Island was a good place to quarantine people with contagious diseases.  It is far-enough off the shore of Manhattan t...