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.
Although a single torpedo penetratesLusitania, she is in peril almost immediately when a second, massive explosion occurs.
From Imperial Russia to a Midwestern American town, the Third Imperial Easter Egg has an amazing history.
Slightly less than twice the size of Texas (in the United States), South Africa borders Botswana, Lesotho (which it completely surrounds), Mozambique,...
Jefferson won the 1800 election, the federal government's program of excise taxes on Americans was abolished, however the role of government is still ...
In his oral history, Jack Delano tells us how he became a photographer with the Farm Security Administration.
While he was head of Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky used Fanny Kaplan's attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin to justify the use of terror against perce...
Professor Wiles has won the Abel Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem. How long did it take to solve it? How did he do it?
During World War I, one of the longest and most-vicious battles took place at Verdun, France. This image depicts a scene at Cote 304 (Hill 304). It i...
WARNING: THIS CLIP EXPLAINS HOW HITLER AND HIS REGIME DEVELOPED "THE FINAL SOLUTION" AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE. Proceed with caution.
When Napoleon and his Grand Army reached Moscow, on the 14th of September, 1812, nearly the whole city had been abandoned. Then it erupted in flames. ...
The First Amendment guarantees all Americans the right to freely express themselves.
The deaths of all five Sullivan Brothers caused a national sensation when word of the tragedy was finally released two months after it happened. The ...
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