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.
Facsimilie of Susan B. Anthony's Petition to the Senate of the United States - For the Protection of Women. Click on the image for a better view.
In 1865, a group of women petitioned the United States Congress to do something about female suffrage. This image depicts the original document which...
This map depicts the location of Plymouth, the place where the Pilgrims established their new American colony during the winter of 1620.
John Wilkes Booth accepted an invitation to perform the lead role in a benefit play - The Apostate, by Richard Lalor Sheil (an Irishman) - on Saturday...
Speaking for a seven-person majority, with Justice John Marshall Harlan dissenting, Justice Henry Billings Brown delivered the opinion of the court in...
This image depicts a bust of Plutarch at Chaeronea, his hometown in Greece. A famous writer, in ancient times, his still-studied book -&nbs...
Signal beacons, which dotted the English landscape, could warn the country of enemy ships approaching Britain by way of the English Channel. His...
This facsimile of Poe's manusript - for the detective story The Murders in the Rue Morgue - is part of the Susan Jaffe Tane collection at Cornell Univ...
This poem is by S. Torre. No other words needed.
Rufus Griswold, purporting to be Poe's friend, wrote a very unflattering and damaging obituary after Poe's death.
This issue of the Southern Literary Messenger - dated December, 1835 - contains Poe's story M.S. Found in a Bottle. (See "Selected Prose Article...
In order for Prohibition violations to occur, on a regular basis, people who were hired to enforce the law had to ignore what was going on. Ther...
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