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.
Victoria and Albert find privacy on the Isle of Wight, but tragedy strikes when Albert dies at age 42. For years, the Queen stays out of the limelight...
Ronald Reagan delivers a speech to students at Moscow State University, urging them to be free of fear and full of hope for the future.
In May of 1381, peasants in the village of Fobbing were angry about a new tax. This led to an uprising against King led by Wat Tyler.
Operation Uranus proved to be a brilliant rescue plan for the city of Stalingrad. It led to the defeat of Hitler's forces in the Russian city.
One of the Leiden Separatists who came to American on theMayflower, William Brewster, got into serious trouble in Leiden for publishing religious lite...
WARNING: MICHELANGELO WAS AN ARTIST WHO PAINTED AND SCULPTED.
Beginning in the fifteenth century, the Medici family, more than any other, presided over this time of cultural change known as "The Renaissance."
Group of Starving African Men and Boys Removed from a Captured Dhow.
The "Judenrat" of the Warsaw Ghetto (Jewish people in charge of the ghetto) were given a "resettlement" order on the the 22nd of July, 1942.
As Wat Tyler meets his fate, at the hands of King Richard II's swordsman, the young monarch addresses the rest of the rebels. They were fed-up with i...
King from the age of ten, Richard II gave-up the throne of England in September of 1399. His next place of residence, at least for a short time, was t...
Richard I (The Lionheart) was known for his bravery fighting in the Third Crusade (and his inability to speak English).
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