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 the first page of the song sheet for The Drunkard's Child with music and lyrics. Click on the image to expand its view. It should be l...
Bookcover image of The Field Guide to North American Monsters, by W. Haden Blackman.
America's federal government passed a law requiring people to help "owners" recover "their" escaped slaves. It was called The Fugitive Slave Law...
Book-cover image of The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This version of the work is translated from the original Russian language into English by...
A fascimile of the charges against Susan B. Anthony. Click on the image for a clearer view.
A fascimile of the charges against Susan B. Anthony. Click on the image for a clearer view.
Cover for The great American question, democracy vs. doulocracy: or, Free soil, free labor, free men, & free speech against the extension and domi...
Image of a pamphlet called General Observations for the Plantation of New England, written by John Winthrop in 1629. Click on the image for a better ...
"The Hound of the Baskervilles" is one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most-famous stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. This image depicts the cover-art fo...
This chart, prepared by Professor Ed Stephan (Western Washington University), shows the geneology of the House of Hapsburg (Habsburg). Click on the i...
During their "Corps of Discovery" mission, Lewis and Clark kept a record of the expedition. Their journals have been assembled into book form fo...
This illuminated text - of The Knight's Tale - is a page from the Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It is currently maintained...
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