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.
Leopold and Loeb together with the prosecutors (who would soon seek the death penalty against them) at the time of their confession to the crimes of k...
In the 11th century, doctors made house calls. At the time, the purpose of medicine, as described by Avicenna in his "Canon of Medicine," was the "pre...
This painting, by Dr. Mike Haywood, recreates the moment of the Pilgrim's first landing in America. This is not the landing at Plymouth (Plimoth) whi...
When the Pilgrims left Leiden, they began their journey to America on the Vliet Canal (sometimes referred to as the Vliet River).
William Brewster, one of the Pilgrim leaders, has previously visited Leiden (in The Netherlands) when he meets with the town secretary, Jan van Hout. ...
When Puritans arrived in America, they implemented the types of punishments they had known in Britain.
A pillory was a place where individuals who were punished for various crimes could be at risk for more than public humiliation.
Titus Oates told a lie.
When Florence Bascom (1862-1945) attended Johns Hopkins University, to pursue a doctorate in geology, she had to sit behind a screen so male students ...
Determined that Marie Antoinette would be condemned to death, French-Revolution leaders put her through a trial on October 14, 1793.
This map, engraved by Francis Shallus, depicts British and American-French positions for the Battle of Yorktown during October, 1781.
During the 1930s, photographers like Dorothea Lange documented the desperate conditions of migrant farm workers in America, including their efforts to...
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