Social Studies Story Briefs

Major differences in social standing existed between people during Victorian times. We call these distinctions ''classes.''

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...

Americans became very upset about the Vietnam War when they watched horrifying scenes on their television screens.

Fort Ticonderoga, in New York state, is a large eighteenth-century fort. It played a key role in the Revolutionary War.

This image is from the October 10, 1846 issue of the London Pictorial Times. It illustrates a time of despair in Ireland, during what has come to be k...

This aerial view depicts Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. It once had an electric chair.

Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1541-1614), a famous painter better known as El Greco (“The Greek”), painted several views of the Spanish city o...

In northern Scotland, about thirty miles north of Inverness, archeologists believe they have found evidence of a monastery raided by Vikings.

Anglesey, island off the coast of Wales - recently made more famous because the Duke (Prince William) and Duchess of Cambridge lived there - is a plac...

In 793 - about six years after commencing raids - Vikings (probably Norwegians) invaded England. Were they seeking to plunder only - or - did some of ...

Although his paintings sell for millions of dollars today, Vincent van Gogh was unable to sell his artwork during his lifetime. Who was this prolific ...