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.
The historic city of Verdun had special meaning for the French people in February of 1916.
As the battle for Verdun - and its surrounding forts - grew ever-more costly, the French defenders rallied around this charge: "Verdun Must Not Fall!
As another German assault against Verdun began on the 23rd of June, 1916, French troops remembered the words of their General to not let the enemy pas...
This clip is from Eye of Vichy (L'oeil de Vichy) - by Claude Chabrol and narrated by Brian Cox (in the English version) - a documentary compiling hist...
What was life like in Vichy France, where the French people were governed by a regime loyal to Hitler?
Themistocles - an Athenian leader in 480 B.
After Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and their colleagues are released, they renew their efforts to get a constitutional amendment, granting women the right t...
Universal Newsreel provided coverage of the attack in Pleiku in February of 1965.
As scenes from Vietnam filled American television screens, night after night, people in the country began to grow very weary of the war.
During the Tet Offensive, in early 1968, U.
By 1967, protestors gathered in large crowds to raise their collective voices against the Vietnam war.
In northern Scotland, about thirty miles north of Inverness, archeologists believe they have found evidence of a monastery raided by Vikings.
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