Social Studies Documents

This image depicts the front cover of Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It, by Gina Kola...

Image of a federal-government memo called Report of McNamara-Taylor Mission to South Vietnam, dated October 2,1963.  This document is significan...

This image depicts the 10th page of a federal-government memo entitled Report of McNamara-Taylor Mission to South Vietnam, dated October 2,1963. ...

This image depicts the 4th page of a federal-government memo entitled Report of McNamara-Taylor Mission to South Vietnam, dated October 2,1963.  ...

This book, by Tony Allan, uses data from 35 burial sites to examine what we can learn from people who lived before us.  Using forensic, archeolog...

Image of the Slave Roster from the records of the Molly slave ship.  Maintained by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, U.K. From the Unders...

This is a page from the 1840 work entitled A History of the Amistad Captives.  It depicts a map of the western part of Africa, including an area ...

Six Days in October, by Karen Blumenthal, is intended to help children understand the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

The Skid-Row area of Los Angeles, as defined by the LA Police Department, extends from 3rd to 7th streets, and Los Angeles to Alameda streets.  T...

This document, filed with the U.S. District Court for the State of Maryland, was permitted under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law.  It was submitted a...

This image depicts the second page of a bill of sale by which a slave owner named Jacob Cook purchased four slaves "for life."   The slaves, of ...

Since it became America's capital city, circa 1800, Washington City had slaves. This compendium includes laws impacting slavery in the District.