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.
The second page of the undated press release, regarding Prohibition violations by high-ranking people in the Seattle-Tacoma area, continues in the sam...
The third page of the undated press release, regarding Prohibition violations by high-ranking people in the Seattle-Tacoma area, compares the crimes i...
Prohibition did not stop people from drinking alcoholic beverages. Women had complained that their husbands were spending household money on liq...
As Federal investigators continued looking into potential crimes of city and police officials in Tacoma, they found evidence against them. This ...
After President McKinley died, Leon Czolgosz was tried for murder. The trial was very short (about three hours) and jury deliberations even sho...
In an effort to educate its citizens about how to respond to a nuclear attack, Massachusetts issued this brochure. If people saw a flash “...
Henry VIII had an interest in Ireland but his daughter, Elizabeth I, really impacted the Emerald Isle. Henry wanted to "colonize" an already-est...
This image depicts a broadside, now maintained by the British Museum, published circa 1606. It tells the story of the Gunpowder Plot, the conspi...
Image of Damon Runyon's column from the Los Angeles Examiner that ran for nine years. Column depicted, circa 1938. Click on the image for a bet...
Image of the publisher's notes from a page included in the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanac for 1792, by Benjamin Banneker. Clic...
This letter, which is maintained by the Dutch archives in The Hague, provides some evidence that the Dutch West India Company purchased Manhattan Isla...
When John Dillinger used a wooden gun to escape from the Lake County jail in Crown Point, Indiana, Melvin Purvis sent Director Hoover a telegram. ...
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