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.
William Penn's treaty with the Delaware, when he founded the Colony of Pennsylvania in 1681, helped to have peaceful relations between the Colonists a...
As North Vietnamese troops neared Saigon, many people attempted to flee the city by helicopter. Hubert van Es took an iconic photo of those events on ...
Whenever a nation goes to war - whether the conflict is supported, or opposed, by most citizens - free speech is threatened.
During ancient times, Persians used scythed chariots in war. Although frightful to their opponents, these knifed chariots could be defended again.
On the 8th of October, 1871, Peshtigo was a mill town in Wisconsin.
This illumination on parchment, by an unknown Spanish miniaturist who was likely working in Spain during the 14th century, is known as the Peszach Hag...
History tells us that after Mary's death, her heart and organs were removed and were buried at an unknown place at Fotheringhay.
After hijackers took control of United Flight 175, Peter Hanson - a passenger - called his parents from the plane.
Peter Minuit was 46 years old when he arrived in "New Netherland" on the 4th of May, 1626. He was the colony's first official director general and "p...
Russia rose as a mighty power following the Middle Ages, but after Ivan IV (also known as Ivan Grozny - "Ivan the Terrible") died, the country was thr...
Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velzquez (1599-1660) created this oil-on-canvas portrait of Philip IV between 1652-53.
Phosphate mining, in South Carolina, was once the most-dominant in the world. This twenty-year position of prominence ended due to a variety of factor...
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