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.
Theseus learned that his father was Aegeus, King of Athens, after he was able to move a heavy rock and discover what was beneath it.
WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS NEWSREEL CLIPS OF NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
This is the theme song of The War, a Ken Burns documentary.
Seeing World War II through the eyes of those who fought it, and from the perspective of families who worried about their loved ones safety, Ken Burns...
The poem of Robert Dwyer Joyce - The Wind that Shakes the Barley - has been set to hauntingly beautiful music.
During the Irish Civil War, brothers formerly united in their desire for a free-Ireland are split apart by a major disagreement.
This historic film footage, taken by the Edison Film Company, depicts the state of ruin in San Francisco, following the April 1906 earthquake and subs...
A man of contrasts who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson declared that all men were born equal.
This video clip provides a short history of the Thompson Submachine Gun, more commonly known as the "Tommy Gun.
Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was the first African-American to serve as a U.
Millvina Dean, the last-surviving passenger of Titanics maiden voyage, kept her treasures from the doomed voyage (and its aftermath) for ninety-six ye...
After working at Herodium, an important archaeological site in Israel, Professor Ehud Netzer (of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem) located what he (...
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