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.

Image of Indian Presents, listed items on the Meriweather Lewis supply list.  

Bookcover image of La bête du Gévaudan, by Michel Louis.

This image depicts a French-language book about La Bête, the Beast of Gevaudan.  The story remains very popular in France. This book is an ...

This map depicts the location of Michigan City, Indiana.  It is near the Indiana-Michigan state line.

Map depicting the location of Michigan CIty, Indiana.  It is a place which featured prominently in the life of John Dillinger.

As the Kennedy Administration continued to monitor the situation in Vietnam - where North and South were fighting against each other - "military indic...

This is the second page of Erle Johnston's internal file memo regarding denial of access to pathologists representing the families of slain civil-righ...

This file memo, written by the director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, confirms that officials denied autopsy access to a physician ...

This is the cover of Elizabeth Packard's book, Modern Persecution (Volume II), published in 1873.  It depicts the physician who admitted Elizabet...

This table is the first of twenty-five similar tables summarizing court cases in which animals were tried as criminal defendants.  The first comp...

Image of a 1966 movie poster for Khartoum, copyright United Artists, all rights reserved. 

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