Social Studies Story Briefs

How did Gutenberg’s printing process work?  This engraving of the printing process, by Theodor Galle, is based on an earlier work - Nova R...

Johannes Gutenberg invented one of "the machines that made us."

Every November 5th, as bonfires burn, Britain celebrates being saved from a national catastrophe when Guy Fawkes was discovered with 36 barrels of gun...

In this image we see a castle in the town of Gyula, Hungary.  It is named after Gyula III, a Hungarian ruler.Gyula is located in the Great Hungar...

When the earthquake struck Haiti on the 12th of January, 2010, massive damage and loss of life were not limited to Port-au-Prince and its immediate su...

Ten years ago security cameras at the U.S. Embassy, in Haiti's capital city, recorded an earthquake during the afternoon of January 12, 2010. At the m...

Halicarnassus, home of Herodotus the historian, was also the site of a famous marble mausoleum - one of seven wonders of the ancient world.

Halloween has its roots in the Celtic people and their festival of Samhain (pronounced SAU-an). How do the scary parts of the holiday line-up with its...

In this fictional setting, at Jurassic World, scientists working in the "Hammond Creation Lab" follow a detailed process to produce new dinosaur attra...

We know how Henry VIII and many of his contemporaries appeared thanks to the work of a prolific German artist known as Hans Holbein the Younger. Who w...

Edward Sorel created this parody of America's sitting Vice-President, Spiro Agnew, in 1973. Not long after the political cartoon was published by Harp...

My story is about the Hawaiian Overthrow in Hawaii and how the throne was taken away from Queen Liliuokalani (the first and last queen of Hawaii). It ...