Social Studies Story Briefs

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.

Observations and descriptions about terrible acts help to get the collective mind of the people to oppose the atrocities.

Mary, Queen of Scots married Francis, the Dauphin of France when she was 15 and he was 14.

What was it like for ten-year-old children (and those even younger) to work as miners?

After close relationships with two different kings - Francis I (of France) and Henry VIII (of England) - Mary Boleyn marries twice. Some historians be...

Mary Kelley lived at 13 Miller's Court on Dorset Street.

Queen Mary was the wife of George V and the mother of two additional British kings: Edward VIII (who abdicated) and George VI (who helmed the British ...

About six hours before she was executed, Mary Queen of Scots wrote a final letter to her brother-in-law (the King of France, brother of her first husb...

A real-life MASH unit, in Korea, gives rise to a popular CBS television show called M*A*S*H.

According to Sarah Farmer, in her 1999 book "Martyred Village - Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane," tragic events took place as the...

Did people around the world know what the Nazis were doing in Poland before the end of the war? In 1942, the Polish government-in-exile sent a pamphle...

Six days after the United States elected Abraham Lincoln to serve as America''s 16th President, South Carolina held a meeting to endorse a call from t...

Max Schmelling was a German boxer who had great success in the ring. He also helped Jewish people who were threatened by Nazi policies.

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