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 Thomas Jefferson's letter to Benjamin Banneker, dated August 30, 1791. Here is the transcription of this letter: To Mr. BENJAMIN BANNEKER...
Image of Thomas Nast: The Man Who Saw Christmas, a biography of Thomas Nast.
Auto-Ordnance released a submachine gun commonly known as the “Tommy Gun.” When the product first came to market, its sales were wea...
Image of a pamphlet entitled Thoughts Upon Slavery, by John Wesley in 1778. Founder of the Methodist church, Wesley despised slavery, particular...
Image of a newspaper notice, by the German Imperial Embassy, warning of potential attacks on ships near the British Isles. This warning was date...
Image of a map of Switzerland, depicting the location of the Canton, Ticino.
This timeline, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, identifies the dates for key events leading up to Hitler's "Final Solution" of the "J...
After the loss of her husband, William Logan Gwinn - an American postal worker who died when Titanic sank - Florence Gwinn received a death-be...
On the 1st of April, 1912, Oscar Scott Woody - an American Postal clerk - received travel orders to work in the "sea post office" aboard a Ger...
Image of the newspaper article: Freemen of Texas - To Arms!!! To Arms!!! "Now is the Day & Now is the Hour." Click on the image for a better view...
Page from the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (also known as "Gustavus Vassa, The African"). Here Equiano tells us what it was like to be seasick ab...
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