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.
As he traveled to Washington for his inauguration, Abraham Lincoln was told of a plot to kill him.
No one can be totally sure that the rock depicted in this image - known as Plymouth Rock - is really the stepping stone on which William Bradford (and...
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov, Commander of the USSRs 62nd Army, was at Stalingrad during one of the worlds most-deadly battles.
Sermons, like this one from clergy like Abraham Keteltas, supported colonial revolutionary ideas by saying that God and Biblical authority backed thei...
When Pope Gregory VII was born, circa 1025, his family lived near Sovana (which was then part of the Papal States).
Pope Leo X issued a Papal Bull (directive) called Exsurge Domine (in English, from Latin, "Arise O Lord") on the 15th of June, 1520.
Image of a map depicting naval positions on the day before the battle of Salamis and the day of the battle.
With very little food and no money to buy provisions starving Irish families looked to the government for help.
As reporters and illustrators for various newspapers visit the Irish countryside, they are appalled by what they see. Out of their former homes, and ...
Beyond the famine, and all its problem-causing situations, the Poor Laws make life for Irish peasants completely untenable. Those laws effectively cr...
While some displaced families can only find shelter by digging a Scalp (a hole in the Earth or a bog), others - more fortunate, by far - create a home...
Photographic image of Ida Saxton McKinley who married William McKinley on January 25, 1871at the First Presbyterian Church in Canton, Ohio.
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