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.
After Krakatoa's stupendous explosion - on the 27th of August, 1883 - the volcano spewed out another monstrous pyroclastic flow.
As a result of the Krakatoa eruption and resulting tsunami, the Fourth Point Lighthouse meets a terrible fate.
Krishna reveals his Universal Form to Arjuna, as related in chapter 11 of the Bhagavad-Gita.
Kristallnacht begins in Germany on the 9th of November, 1938. What was it and why did it begin?
In 1922James Dole- a pineapple grower and operator of a company he started in Hawaii (where he also lived) - bought the entire island of Lanai for $1....
Illustrating and amplifying the concept of self-rule from "Land of Hope," by Wilfred M. McClay.
Krakatoa's tremendous volcanic eruption causes a devastating tsunami on August 26, 1883. It also produces the loudest-ever-reported sound when the isl...
In this clip, we see Germany's much-feared rockets - the V-2/A-4 - during launch.
Thomas Clarkson describes the public's reaction to the drawings he and his colleagues commissioned of the Slave ShipBrooks
On the evening of March 31, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson requested broadcast time. No one expected what he had to say.
Walt Whitman published the first edition of "Leaves of Grass" when he was 36 years old.
Thomas Rogers, one of the "Pilgrim Fathers" who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower, lived in this house in Leiden, The Netherlands.
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