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.
This image depicts the second page of Philip Johnston's proposal to use the Navajo language as the basis for a WWII code. Click on the image for a be...
During his trial, in the summer of 1867, John Surratt produced witnesses who swore he was in Elmira, New York the day after Lincoln's shooting. ...
John Cass - from Elmira, New York - testified during the trial of John Surratt. He told the jury he saw John Surratt in Elmira, New York on Apri...
Bookcover image of In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War, by Alice Rains Trulock.
This text image depicts a page from Jupiter Hammon's famous speech to the African Society of New York City which he gave on the 24th of Sept...
This image depicts the cover of Michael Crichton's famous book, Jurassic Park. It is this book on which the film "Jurassic Park" is based.
This image depicts the box cover of "Jurassic Park," a film by Steven Spielberg.
Image of Justice Frankfurter's notes regarding the Brown v. Board of Education II case. Notice the words he used: ...with all deliberat...
Bookcover image of K-19 the Widowmaker: The Secret Story of The Soviet Nuclear Submarine, by Peter Huchthausen.
This image depicts the fifth page of a letter which Kaiser Wilhelm II wrote to President Woodrow Wilson in 1914.
Image of U.S. President Kennedy's diary of his appointments for October 22, 1962. Click on the image for a better view.
This image depicts the first page of a letter - dated October 27, 1962 - which President Kennedy sent to Nikita Khrushchev, the USSR's leader, during ...
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