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.
When kidnappers capture Africans, intending to make them slaves, they use shackles (among other things) to bind them.
Racism in America, during the days before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was even manifested in law-enforcement officials.
Jess Sarber - Sheriff of Allen County in October of 1933 - lived in Lima, Ohio.
The houses pictured here - called "shotguns" - are in the Farish Street District of Jackson, Mississippi.
This image depicts the siege of Cartagena when a combined force of French troops and buccaneers found a weakness in the city's heavily fortified defen...
In the fall of 1187, Saladin and his forces besieged the city of Jerusalem. It was not the first time the ancient city was subjected to a siege by for...
This painting of King Sigismund I, from Poland, was created by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-1586) around 1553. The oil-on-tin plate measures 19.5 ...
Silkeborg Museum, located in the Danish town of Silkeborg, has an Iron-Age collection which features two mummies found in a nearby peat bog.
As the Springboks prepared for their Rugby-Cup match against Australia (then the reigning world champions) , President Mandela visited them - unexpect...
Sinn Fin (meaning "Ourselves Alone") is an Irish political party favoring Irish Republicanism for ALL of Ireland, including Northern Ireland. This ima...
This image depicts a photograph of Sir Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976).
This drawing - entitled Africans on Board the Slave Bark Wildfire, April 30, 1860 - was published in Harper's Weekly on the 2nd of June, 1860.
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