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.
Barbara Tuchman's famous book about World War I begins with a poignant passage about the last days of the Edwardian era (when color photography was fi...
On September 1, 1941, German Jews received the police directive that all Jews above the age of six to wear a yellow star.
A famous cartoon, by an unknown artist, depicts how Colonial Americans viewed their mother country (and their future without her).
JFK and Jackie were married at St. Mary's Church (in Newport, Rhode Island) on the morning of September 12, 1953.
Bookcover image of The Night Before Christmas, by Clement C.
On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles and his colleagues at Mercury Theatre on the Air played a prank on the American people.
Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo (1877-1947) was a Democratic Mississippi politician who served as state governor and U.
On June 30, 1905, an obscure patent-office clerk in Switzerland submits a world-changing paper. Without the brilliance of Albert Einstein and his "mir...
Robert Leckie and other U.S. Marines fight the Japanese during the Battle of Guadalcanal. It is a fearsome time for such young men.
During the American Civil War, the North had significant concerns about Britain and France helping the South.
In this story, based on his personal observations in 1902, Jack London describes ''Doss Houses'' and what it was like to live in them.
This cartoon, by an unknown artist, depicts Thomas Jefferson attempting to destroy the Constitution.
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