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.
In this rare video clip of Margaret Thatcher - being interviewed in 1962 - we hear her express concern that not enough women are given opportunities f...
When Margaret Thatcher's colleagues wanted to help improve her image, Laurence Olivier - the famous actor - suggested that she work with a tutor at th...
Nine months after her husband (King Louis XVI) was executed, Marie Antoinette followed him to the guillotine.
Mark Twain was born in a town called Florida in the American state of Missouri.
In its heyday, the American circus was the blockbuster entertainment center of the world.
Dr. King gives his powerful, transforming ''I Have a Dream'' speech at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
On April 3, 1968 - while in Memphis supporting sanitation workers - MLK gave a moving speech. It was his last.
What was it like for ten-year-old children (and those even younger) to work as miners?
It was said, after Mary was executed at the Castle of Fotheringhay, that her lips continued to move for fifteen minutes after her head was separated f...
Francis Walsingham, a key advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, created a trap for Mary, Queen of Scots.
Mary, Queen of Scots had a good first marriage, but it ended when her young husband - Francis II, King of France - died.
Henry VIII had a troubled marital history which impacted his country and his children.
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