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.
Florence Maybrick was sure she could not get a fair trial in Liverpool.
A breviary, once owned by Mayer van den Bergh, is sumptuous in the extreme (meaning that it is very rare and priceless book).
This image - one of the Ghent-Bruges workshop illustrations in the Mayer van den Bergh Breviary - portrays daily chores framed by strewn flowers in a ...
Historians believe this document - The Mayflower Compact - is the first self-governing agreement which Europeans made after reaching the shores of the...
By the 27th of April, the Deepwater Horizon plume was moving toward the coastline of Louisiana.
Composition of bodies: Elements and Humors - a miniature for On the Properties of Things [a thirteenth-century book translated into French during the ...
This illumination on parchment, by an unknown Italian miniaturist who was likely working in Florence during the 14th century, is from the Villani Chro...
During medieval times, the Wheel of Fortune was not a game - it was a concept of life. This image depicts an illumination illustrating a Wheel of Fort...
Early in the 17th century, William Buckland began to find some interesting fossils in the Stonesfield quarries (now known as the Taynton Limestone For...
What was life like at the time of the real Dracula, a man known as Vlad Dracula (or, Vlad Tepes)? He lived during the time of great Ottoman conquests,...
Meningitis occurs when the meninges (the membrane linings of the brain and spinal cord) become inflamed.
The rifle featured in this video clip, from the National Firearms Museum, is a Girandoni System Austrian Repeating Air Rifle.
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