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.
In the immediate aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attacks - on December 7, 1941 - the U.S. government used the smallisland of Kahoolawe-off the shore of ...
Kapu are sacred rules that the Hawaiian's thought of as a religion.
This map depicts the main locations on Kauai, "The Garden Island" (also called the "Island of Discovery").
Ken Taylor, Canada's Ambassador to Iran, risked his own life to help six Americans escape from Tehran during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. He was awarde...
A miniaturist, working around 1200 in the southern part of England, illuminated a commentary of the Psalms of David. This image depicts a page f...
According to Herodotus, coins were first minted in the ancient Kingdom of Lydia (located in today's Western Turkey).
John Lackland, the English King who agrees to the Magna Carta, acknowledges that Kings and Queens are subject to the rule of law just like everyone el...
Tutankhamun was married to Ankhesenamun. She is shrouded in mystery after the unexpected death of her young husband.
Beyond the beauty of the death mask of King Tut, what does it mean? How was it worn?
Klaus Barbie, who headed the Gestapo in Lyon, France (between 1942-1944), is also known as the "Butcher of Lyon.
Kobie Coetsee, in charge of South Africa's prisons in the mid-80s, began a dialogue with Mandela which eventually freed the prisoner from his life sen...
This image—part of the U.S. military art gallery maintained at the U.S. Army Center of Military History—depicts American soldiers, during 1950, at...
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