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.
Bookcover image of Chancellorsville, Second Edition, by Edward J. Stackpole.
Image of the letter Charles Guiteau sent to General Sherman.
This is the first page of Charles Schenck's anti-draft leaflet which caused him to be charged with sedition against the United States. His case, asse...
This is the second page of Charles Schenck's leaflet opposing the draft during World War I. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled that he, a...
This is page 2 of Charley Williams' story. Note that to maintain authenticity, writers transcribed the oral histories - including Charley's - using t...
This is page 3, of Charley Williams' story, and concludes his oral history as a former American slave. Note that to maintain authenticity, writers tr...
Graphic image depicting the historical Dynasties of China.
In occupied Holland, Dutch churches issued a collective protest against the treatment of the country's Jews: The undersigned Dutch Churches, alread...
Civil War discharge document. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Five members of the nine-man Military Commission signed a Clemency request for Mary Surratt on the same day - June 30, 1865 - that the tribuna...
During World War I, 1st Lt. Charles Tribbet - an African-American officer - took a train from New York to Ft. Sill. "Jim Crow" laws required him...
Children were committed to institutions, in Ireland, known as "Industrial Schools." Subsequent investigations reveal that children suffered greatly in...
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