Social Studies Documents

When Albert Hicks was executed on Bedloe’s Island, during July of 1860, newspaper headlines read as though a crowd-drawing entertainment scene h...

Official translation of Himmler's speech to a gathering of SS men in which he directly discuses the "evacuation" of Jewish people. In the speech he st...

This analysis compares and contrasts the Hiroshima atomic bomb (known as "Little Boy") with more modern thermonuclear warheads.  Notice the exte...

This book by Adina de Zavala, and edited by Richard Flores, provides a history of the Tejanos as courageous heroes of the Alamo. Thanks to Arte Publi...

Sol White published an account of his experiences in his book, History of Colored Base Ball. Portions of that significant work are available online, ...

Bookcover image of Petite histoire des ravages d'une méchante bête, by Laurent Fournier.

This is part two of a story about Hobart Wilgus, published in the Hammond Times on the 50th anniversary of Dillinger's death (July 22, 1984).  It...

Image of the telegram from Ho Chi Minh to President Harry S. Truman dated February 28, 1946.  In this message, he asks the American president to...

This is the first page of a CIA Report which discusses aerial photography of the Auschwitz-Birkenau area.  Click on the image for a better view.

This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...

This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...

This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...