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.
Protesting the treatment of women, and still advocating for women's suffrage by reminding President Wilson of his own words (applied in a different co...
WARNING NOTICE: THIS VIDEO RECREATES WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AFRICANS WERE KIDNAPPED FROM THEIR HOMES AND FORCED INTO SLAVERY.
Trailer of the film, Amazing Grace, which tells the story of one man's determination to overturn an unjust law.
The story, and the music, of Amazing Grace as it is often performed today - with bagpipes.
Amelia Earhart tells us what it was like to be the first female to fly across the Atlantic. She took-off five years to the day after Lindbergh's trans...
This clip, from a Discovery-Channel documentary on Amelia Earhart, contains historic footage of Earhart's last flight.
Did you know ... America's Civil War started where it ended - in the backyard of Wilmer McLean. Take a look at this piece of American (and Virginian) ...
When the war in the North was fought to a stalemate, Sir Henry Clinton thought his troops could defeat the rebellion in the American South. Pe...
On the 14th of August, 1945 (August 15th, in Tokyo), Emperor Hirohito told the Japanese people (by radio) that the war was over.
This replica of the Amistad was built at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.
To protect themselves from raiding nomadic tribes, people in ancient China built walls around their homes, around their towns and around their country...
The U.S. National Park Service has produced a video tour of the Andersonville Prison.
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