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.
President Thomas Jefferson asked one of his key aides, twenty-eight-year-old Meriwether Lewis, to lead an expedition west - all the way to the "wester...
Thomas Jefferson appointed Captain Merriwether Lewis to be his personal secretary.
Despite dreadful conditions and too-few horses, Lewis & Clark reach the Great Falls on June 13, 1805. Sacagawea soon makes a remarkable discovery, lea...
French resistors started an uprising against the German occupation during August of 1944.
What is life like in Iran .
Although Lillian Leitzel was well educated, and had the ability to become a concert pianist, she decided to be a circus performer instead.
The Emancipation Proclamation is still debated today, what did it say and how did the country react?
Lincoln - a film directed by Steven Spielberg - is based, in part, on Team of Rivals (by Doris Kearns Goodwin).
Mark Logue - grandson of Lionel Logue and author of a book entitled The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy - takes us behind the sc...
On the 24th of September, 1957, President Eisenhower dispatched paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas.
The inquest (into the murders of Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby Borden) continues while the story of what may have happened (were Lizzie the murdere...
The murders of Andrew Jackson Borden and his wife, Abby, took place in Fall River, Massachusetts on a hot summer day in 1892.
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