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.
It was during the Nuremberg Trials when the world first realized the shocking extent of atrocities committed at concentration camps, in Europe, during...
Near the salt mines of Berchtesgaden is a mountain retreat called Obersalzberg ("above the salt mountain").
O Captain! My Captain!
This photograph depicts two Jewish women, in Paris, wearing the yellow Star of David.
After the war was over, and Ofuna prisoners were rescued by Allied forces, outsiders were able to view where the POWs had lived.
Scholars of Irish Literature believe that Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957) was the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in "Ulysses," by James Joyce.
Nelson Mandela met his friend and future law partner at the University College of Fort Hare.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is known for some of his free-speech decisions which he wrote while serving as a Supreme Court Justice.
On witnessing the first test of the atomic bomb, which he had helped to develop during his work with the Manhattan Project, Dr.
In this image we see an original draft, in President Kennedy's handwriting, of the famous phrase in his inaugural address: "Ask not what your country ...
On a 20-kilometer estate, about 200 miles northwest of Bogot, Pablo Escobar created a private world for himself and his family.
WARNING - THE BEGINNING OF THIS CLIP, FROM A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PABLO ESCOBAR AND HIS FAMILY, CONTAINS LANGUAGE NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.
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