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.
Now contained in the U.S. National Archives, this facsimile document relates (via the Soviet Union) information on how China viewed America's involvem...
More Americans died of Spanish Flu in October, 1918, than in any other month that the virus plagued the world. This document, from the Otis Arch...
The Spice Islands - an archipelago also known as the Moluccas (and the Maluku Islands) - are part of Indonesia. Volcanic-originating, these isla...
Bookcover image of Stalingrad: The Fateful siege 1942 - 1943, by Anthony Beevor.
This is one of the original manuscripts which Francis Scott Key penned following the Battle of Fort McHenry. It is online, courtesy the Smithson...
Image of a U.S. State Department memo detailing the Korean Ambassador's words of appreciation for American help in Korea. Click on the image for a be...
Page from the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (also known as "Gustavus Vassa, The African"). Captured Africans were placed below decks, Equiano tell...
Bookcover image of Steven Austin: Empresario of Texas, by Professor Gregg Cantrell.
Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas, by Gregg Cantrell, is the first full-length biography of the "Father of Texas" in more than seventy year...
The follow excerpts from John Brown's Body—a 15,000-line epic Civil-War poem by Stephen Vincent Benet, published in 1928—tell the story of...
In 1858, an enslaved woman named Ann Maria Jackson and her seven children (ranging in age from three or four to sixteen) were about to be sold at a pu...
This now-declassified cable from the Secretary of War (Henry Stimson) to President Harry Truman (who was attending the Potsdam Conference in Germany) ...
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