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.
See the massive Allied bombing attack on Dresden, during February and March of 1945. Bomb runs began on February 13th, reducing the city to utter deva...
The story of how Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is almost as interesting as the work itself.
In this clip, from a film entitled Stanley and Livingstone," Henry Morton Stanley (a Welsh-American portrayed by Spencer Tracy) meets Dr.
Dr. Robert Goddard - a genuine rocket scientist whose pioneering work still impacts space travel and today's rockets - was a visionary.
In 1951, the American government, in consultation with the National Education Association, created a film instructing young school children what to do...
Prince Albert, known to his friends and family as "Bertie," has a new title - the Duke of York - when Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon finally agrees to marry him...
In this clip from the Edison Company's historic film footage, taken immediately after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, we see enormous damage.
Historic footage, filmed by an assistant of Thomas Edison, shows the devastated waterfront at Galveston after the Great Storm of 1900.
Thomas Edison ammounced his invention of the phonograph on the 21st of November, 1877.
Two months before her death, at age 91, Edith Shain tells her story about the time an unknown sailor kissed her.
This clip is part two of Edward R.
On the 11th of December, 1936, King Edward VIII signed an Instrument of Abdication by which he gave up the British throne.
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