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.

"A New India" was born in August of 1947 split into two along religious lines.

This photograph captures an early moment in the Liberation of Paris.

George Parkman had problems with his teeth.

This travel pass - signed by Benedict Arnold on September 21st, 1780 - authorized Joshua Smith to carry private letters.

Achilles is extremely upset that Hector (Hektor) has killed Patroclus and grieves over the body of his dead friend and cousin.

This aerial photograph of Pearl Harbor was taken on the 30th of October, 1941 - about five weeks before Japan attacked the naval base.

This captured Japanese photo, taken by an attack pilot, depicts a huge burst of sea spray after a successful torpedo strike at Battleship Row.

Because the clouds have cleared on Sunday morning - December 7, 1941 - every pilot has an unobstructed view as hundreds of Japanese airplanes approach...

Image of a captured Japanese photograph taken on December 7, 1941.

Simon Bening created this illumination for the DaCosta Hours which was published around 1515. It appears for the month of November and depicts peasant...

Margaret (Peggy) Shippen was nearly nineteen when she married Benedict Arnold.

In its 10 October 1846 issue, the London Pictorial Times publishes an article about an ongoing famine in Ireland.

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