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.
Image of a letter, written by President Hoover, explaing the cause of the Great Depression and the stock-market crash of October, 1929. Page 3-...
Image of a letter, written by President Hoover, explaing the cause of the Great Depression and the stock market crash of 1929. Page 4-of-4 of t...
Image of a letter, written by President Hoover, explaing the cause of 1929's "market crash" and the Great Depression. Page 1 of 4 of the Hoover...
Letter from U.S. President Herbert Hoover to U.S. Senator Fess. Click on the image for a better view.
Letter from U.S. President Herbert Hoover to U.S. Senator Fess. Click on the image for a better view.
President Hoover's letter to U.S. Senator Fess. Click on the image for a better view.
Greek hoplites were infantrymen who fought their battles in tightly packed formations. They took their name ("hoplite") from the "hoplon," a shi...
According to research compiled by E.P Evans - in his 1906 book entitled The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals - horseflies in Mai...
Thomas Jefferson represented a slave named Samuel Howell in the man’s quest to gain freedom from his “master,” Wade Netherland. ...
In 1770, Thomas Jefferson - then a practicing lawyer (and a slave owner) in Virginia - represented a slave named Samuel Howell. Accepting the ca...
Thomas Jefferson represented a slave named Samuel Howell in the man’s quest to gain freedom from his “master,” Wade Netherland. ...
In April of 1770, Thomas Jefferson did his best to help free a slave whose mother was white. Jefferson's client was Samuel Howell. Without ch...
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