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.
Two years after the end of hostilities between America and Britain, the parties signed the Treaty of Paris. Peace between the two countries remained n...
According to the U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington's troops were poorly clothed and hungry when they attacked at Trenton. Confident tha...
After his marriage to Anne Boleyn - and the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth - Henry VIII decided to look elsewhere for a wife.
Africa had its own system of slavery, before the European slave trade, but it involved a system of justice.
Image of a drawing depicting a scene at the trial of Louis XVI when the charges against him were read to the court.
The Nazi war plan for Norway, in April of 1940, includes capturing the Norwegian seaport of Trondheim.
Tsar Nicholas II with his heir, Tsarevitch Alexei, together with Prince George (later George V) and his son Edward (later the Duke of Windsor).
One of numerous relocation centers, during WWII, the Tule Lake internment camp was also known as a segregation center.
Image of a political cartoon called Church of the Heavenly Antenna by Herb Block and published by the Washington Post on March 26, 1987.
The Quack - a prison guard at Ofuna - seemed to take great pleasure in harming Allied prisoners of war.
James Montgomery Flagg created this 1917 lithograph as a magazine cover. It soon became used for other purposes, such as recruiting troops for both wo...
Escaping slaves needed to understand a bit of science in order to find their way to freedom. The words of songs helped them to achieve that objective...
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