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.
Cosmo Lang was Archbishop of Canterbury during Britain's 1936 abdication crisis.
David Balme, a 20-year-old Royal Navy officer has a formidable task. He must lead a group of sailors boarding a stricken U-boat. What will they find a...
A Caliph, called Omar, allegedly wrote "The Covenant of Peace," directed to Christians living in Jerusalem.
The Nazi's bombed Coventry to brea morale, learn why it did not work.
After the U.S. Civil War, Texans who fought for the Confederacy returned home to find their herds of Longhorns had significantly multiplied. With litt...
Mexico's independence began with an event called "The Cry of Dolores" when a priest challenged his parishioners: "Will you free yourselves?"
As Dante and Virgil reach the City of Dis, they see the flaming towers of a city seemingly on fire. Inhabitants of Dis wonder how these two individual...
Danzig, a city in German-controlled Prussia during WWII—and now, as Gdansk, part of Poland—was particularly damaged during the war.Hitler ...
Darius I the Great King of Persia
Elizabeth Shoumatoff (1888-1980) was painting President Roosevelt's portrait at his Little White House, in Warm Springs, on the 12th of April, 1945. T...
For centuries, London's Fleet Prison was a terrible place. People who owed debts were routinely jailed there.
As agitation against American slavery increased, abolitionists meet in Philadelphia in December of 1833.
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