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.
Homes in Pompeii, before Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, were not only beautiful in their own right, they also included beautiful gardens.
In this U.S. Air Force photo, we see four C-123s spraying defoliant in September of 1965.
Takeo Yoshikawa provided detailed charts to the Japanese Imperial High Command, as depicted in this recovered document.
Sri Lanka - an island in the Indian Ocean, off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent - is a place of lush beauty and rich history.
This image depicts the R-12 / SS-4 "Sandal" Soviet-made missile. It was a key component of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
After the Battle of Waterloo was over, people were stunned at the number of casualties. It was Napoleon's final military effort.
Ukrainian farmers and their families die, by the millions, as a result of Stalin's policies enforced against them. They are left with no grain to sell...
In late July, of 1942, Stalin issued an order (Number 227). The Soviet leader told the people of the city named after him to resist the coming German ...
On the 23rd of August, 1942, German bombs devastated the city of Stalingrad.
When Vladimir Lenin died, and Joseph Stalin came to power, people in the Soviet Union were forced to change the way they conducted business.
Gudea was a Prince of Lagash who lived during the troubled period following the end of the reign of Naram-Sin (who had led the Akkadian Empire to its ...
Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who died, under suspicious circumstances, while in police custody.
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