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.
Magellan and his entire crew are devastated by hunger, thirst and foreboding. Their food and water is contaminated. The men are reduced to eating ra...
After Magellan dies, his remnant crew returns to Spain, completing the world's first circumnavigation. Extremely ill, the men do not realize their car...
This clip recreates the trial of Major Henry Wirz who was the superintendent of a prisoner-of-war camp - located in Andersonville, Georgia - at which ...
Foreigners from Manchuria were allowed into China during the seventeenth century.
For more than two thousand years (ever since the First Emperor united seven warring states in 221 B.
While he was in prison, on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela read The Diary of Anne Frank.
Nelson Mandela gave this statement to the court during the opening of his defense in the Rivonia treason trial.
In this clip, narrated by Morgan Freeman, we see historical footage depicting tensions between black and white South Africans. The video demonst...
Manfred von Richthofen - Germany's World War I ace - flew a Fokker DR1 which was painted red.
In 1857, and before, British rulers in India used local soldiers (called "Sepoys") to supplement Britain's army on the subcontinent.
How did the U.S. Supreme Court get the power of "judicial review?
Sherman implemented a policy of destruction against his Southern enemies.
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