Social Studies Documents

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.

As reports came into the White House from Vietnam, during the summer of 1968, President Johnson often showed his emotions.  In this image, he is ...

Page 1 of President Johnson's speech - "Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia" - which he gave to promote U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Click on the ima...

Page 2 of President Johnson's speech - "Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia" - which he gave to promote U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Click on the ima...

Page 3 of President Johnson's speech - "Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia" - which he gave to promote U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Click on the ima...

Page 4 of President Johnson's speech - "Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia" - which he gave to promote U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Click on the ima...

Page 5 of President Johnson's speech - "Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia" - which he gave to promote U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Click on the ima...

Page 6 of President Johnson's speech - "Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia" - which he gave to promote U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Click on the ima...

Page 7 of President Johnson's speech - "Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia" - which he gave to promote U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Click on the ima...

Page 8 of President Johnson's speech - "Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia" - which he gave to promote U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Click on the ima...

Page 9, the last page, of President Johnson's speech - "Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia" - which he gave to promote U.S. involvement in Vietnam. ...

Page from the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (also known as "Gustavus Vassa, The African"). Here Equiano learns the reason why he was captured:&nbs...

Frederick Douglass, a former slave, honored the memory of John Brown (an abolitionist) with a lecture about him.  This image depicts a page from ...

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