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.
Learn about American slavery, slave auctions and the Underground Railroad (when people helped others to escape the horrors of chattel slavery).
William Wallace was betrayed near a well in Robroystan, Scotland. This image depicts that well.
The poem of Robert Dwyer Joyce - The Wind that Shakes the Barley - has been set to hauntingly beautiful music.
Herb Block, who would ultimately become a famous political cartoonist at the Washington Post, created this illustration in 1929.
Playing a key role in supporting Henry VIII's decision to split from papal authority in England, Thomas Cranmer grants the King a dispensation to divo...
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...
Thomas Hobbes, a British philosopher who was born in "the philosophy town" of Malmesbury, in 1588 (during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I), believed th...
A man of contrasts who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson declared that all men were born equal.
When Thomas Jefferson became America's third President, the election process was complicated. He won on the 36th ballot, in the House of Representativ...
Poor Laws, which Britain imposed on Ireland, caused many Irish people to lose their homes. Tim Downs was one of them.
John Starr March - a 48-year-old American postal clerk working on board Titanic - liked being "at sea."
About 100 years after the Titanic sank, a rare photo was found in the archives of the Mackay-Bennett's 4th officer. It depicts the remains of numerous...
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