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.
This image depicts an original page from President Trumans diary for the 17th of June, 1945.
By 1886, according to contemporary articles, William Ewart Gladstone (then Great Britains Prime Minister) believed Ireland needed to be independent.
Pieter Bruegel - usually called "Pieter Bruegel the Elder" - is known as the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century.
John Forbes Nash became a professor while most young people his age were still trying to determine their career paths.
Combatants in a military conflict try to win the hearts of the people with various types of propaganda.
One hundred years after Luther nails his 95 Theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg (on October 31, 1517), a conflict called the Thirty Years W...
This image depicts a marble bust of Ptolemy I Soter (305 BC282 BC), a close friend of Alexander the Great.
According to the Library of Congress, the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence took place in Philadelphia when "Pennsylvania militi...
This letter, which is maintained by the Dutch archives in The Hague, provides some evidence that the Dutch West India Company purchased Manhattan Isla...
P.W. Botha (1916 - 2006) lived to be ninety years old.
Quakers were persecuted in England as well as in Britain's American Colonies. George Fox, who founded the "Society of Friends," was among those persec...
Britain's Queen Mary - known as "May" to her family members - is pictured here with her six children.
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