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.
Saadi (Sa'di) Shirazi - often referred to only by his first name - was a Persian poet who lived in the late-12th / early 13th centuries.
NASA honored Sacajawea when the federal agency used her name to describe an elliptical caldera on the planet Venus.
Columba (521-597), the famous saint of Scotland, was actually an Irishman.
Matthew Paris, who died in 1259, created this illumination depicting Saladin and Guy de Lusignan fighting over a relic known as the "Sacred Cross" dur...
While "witch hunts" frequently took place in parts of Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries - resulting in the deaths of up to 50,000 people - th...
The first witch trial, in Massachusetts, occurred soon after the Puritans arrived in America. In 1648, Margaret Jones was accused - and hanged - in Ch...
After Tituba—accused of being a witch in 1692—testified that she saw the names of other people in the “Devil’s book,” th...
Samuel Clemens first used his pen name, Mark Twain, while working for Territorial Enterprise, a newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada.
Samuel A. Mudd was a young doctor with several children when he met John Wilkes Booth in the fall of 1864.
Image of a drawing depicting Samuel Beckles at his legendary excavation in 1857 on the cliffs of Durlston Bay.
While Samuel Huntington was president in 1781, the Articles of Confederation went into effect, thus making him the first president of the United State...
On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message?
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