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.
To root-out perceived heresy, the Catholic Church began its first Inquisition (especially against Waldensians in southern France) around 1184.
In this clip, the historian Simon Schama takes us inside Number 10 Downing Street - the London residence of Britain's Prime Minister - to see the "Whi...
On February 11, 1990, Mandela was released from prison. In this clip, from a larger report on Apartheid, Mandela talks about actions to secure voting ...
"Invictus," by William Ernest Henley (18491903), is here recited by Sir Alan Bates (now deceased).
Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family were executed late in the evening of July 16, 1918 at the Ipatiev House.
For nearly 100 years, Iran (formerly known as "Persia") has been at odds with "The West" over control of its own energy sources - first with oil, th...
While Iran was in a weakened economic position, due to an embargo imposed on it by the West, Iraq invaded its neighbor.
Six days after Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, ABC News broadcast a special report on the events. An eyewitness explains ...
Within seconds after Ronald Reagan became America's 40th President, the remaining embassy hostages were freed after 444 days of captivity in Iran. ...
When Iran nationalized its oil, Britain and its Anglo-Iranian Oil Company were no longer in charge of processing oil and getting it shipped to "the fr...
By 1951, when Mohammad Mossadeq (Mosaddegh) was Prime Minister of Iran, people in the West were worried that Iran would actually nationalize its vast ...
On the 23rd of November, 1990, the leader of the Labour Party - Neil Kinnock - brought a no-confidence vote in the House of Commons.
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