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.
Mikael Blomkvist, one of Stieg Larsson's main characters in the Millenium Trilogy, was a rifleman in Kiruna during his time of national service.
Still the youngest-ever Nobel Laureate for Literature, Rudyard Kipling was enormously popular during his lifetime.
This image depicts a page from the Illuminated Chronicle, also known as Manuscript (Cod. Lat. 404). A national treasure for the country of Hunga...
Making their point with EXTREMELY graphic depictions of slaves at work (and being punished for daring to rebel or escape), anti-slavery societies did ...
This historical footage, shot by the Edison Company soon after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, depicts the widespread impact of the disast...
When people could not afford to buy gas or cars, during the Great Depression, they returned to the use of horse-drawn wagons.
What happened in Ukraine, during 1932-33, which caused people to describe a famine in that country as Holodomor ("death by starvation)?
After his city of Warsaw had been bombed into ruin, a 9-year old boy becomes the breadwinner of his family.
During the 1930s, Dorothea Lange photographed the types of homes in which migrant farm workers lived in California’s Imperial Valley.
Image of a lithograph called "Louis XVI and his Family in the Chateau du Temple," by Edgar Melville Ward.
In 1954, a group of climbers on Chile's El Plomo Mountain found the mummy of a young Inca boy.
Dr. Johan Reinhard and his team found two mummies near the summit of Ampato (at an elevation of 19,200 feet).
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