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.
On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles and his colleagues at Mercury Theatre on the Air decided to play a prank on the American people.
On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles and his colleagues at Mercury Theatre on the Air decided to play a prank on the American people.
Theodore Roosevelt gave this speech, at Carnegie Hall, on the 20th of March, 1912.
On June 30, 1905, an obscure patent-office clerk in Switzerland submits a world-changing paper. Without the brilliance of Albert Einstein and his "mir...
Robert Leckie and other U.S. Marines fight the Japanese during the Battle of Guadalcanal. It is a fearsome time for such young men.
Her accusers know that Joan of Arc is afraid of death by burning at the stake, but they condemn her to this method of execution anyway. This clip depi...
Disregarding personal peril, Germans - like Dietrich Bonhoeffer - resisted Hitler.
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, remains a classic work of American literature. This embedded video, a SparkNotes cartoon summary (...
While Theseus was sailing to Crete, as a Tribute for King Minos and the Minotaur, the monster had a dream.
As his own father had abandoned his mother and her baby, Theseus abandoned his new wife, Ariadne.
Theseus and The Minotaur is a Greek myth about the son of an Athenian king - Theseus - and a horrifying monster - "The Minotaur.
With his father's sword in hand, Theseus killed the Minotaur.
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