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.
An American Marine found a briefcase on Saipan containing nothing but information regarding Amelia Earhart. Was it her briefcase? If so, how did it ge...
General Washington was nearly fifty-two when he decided to retire from military life and return to his Mount Vernon plantation.
Image of a political cartoon called Move over We can't stay in a holding pattern forever, by Herb Block and published July 29, 1973.
This image depicts the Katyusha BM-13 rocket launcher.
W.E.B. DuBois spent his life gathering evidence to refute the myths of racial inferiority. African-Americans struggled in the face of discriminatory l...
In 1925, King George V asked his second son, the Duke of York (also known as Bertie or Prince Albert) to close the British Empire Exhibition at Wemble...
Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) was an orator (among other things) who spoke publicly against slavery.
Wendell Smith - a reporter for the Pittsburgh Courier at the time Jack Robinson was playing baseball for the Kansas City Monarchs (a "Negro-League" te...
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was born 21 years after the United States Supreme Court declared that "separate but equal" - between whites and people of...
America joined World War I in 1917, nearly 2 years after the Guns of August began firing in the summer of 1914.
"We Shall Overcome" became the rally cry of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
During the attack on Pearl Harbor, the USS West Virginia was badly damaged.
Story
Chapter
Learning Task
Video
Image
Audio
Questions to Ponder
Audio Narration
Document