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.

What does the Central Gulf of Mexico look like, from a geological perspective?

Margaret Utinsky referred to her underground network, which helped prisoners of war at Cabanatuan, as Miss "U.

Mollie Steimer was born in Russia on the 21st of November, 1897. Living in New York, she protest America's involvement in WWI and was deported, by the...

A moralisée, popular in the medieval era, is a pictorial Bible in which Biblical events and their “moralizations” are presented in ...

Henry Morgan's successful raid on Porto Bello, Panama netted him and his buccaneers a great deal of loot.

Today's fight for Mosul is not the first time this city has been embattled. It was once involved in the Battle of Gaugamela, fought between Alexander ...

George Washington inherited property on the Potomac River, called Mount Vernon, learn more about the development of the property.

Less than two months after her husband was killed, Mrs.

Have a look at this helpful book - Muhammad, Prophet and Statesman - by W. Montgomery Watt.

The land of modern-day Mumbai is geographically different than it appeared in earlier centuries.

After the war, POWs who had been incarcerated in Japanese camps all told the same story about Mutsuhiro (Matsuhiro) Watanabe - whom prisoners called "...

This sketch of Naoetsu Camp 4 - created from memory, after the war was over - is from "A Bridge Across the Pacific Ocean" (a Japanese-language book).

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