Ethics Story Briefs

Ideas about good and bad behavior in our personal relations, online actions and business practices to moral philosophy examining concepts of right and wrong - all this is in the field of ethics.

What happened in Ukraine, during 1932-33, which caused people to describe a famine in that country as Holodomor ("death by starvation)?

During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain had a shortage of sailors. To fix this problem, "press gangs" roamed the country's seaports where they kidnapped m...

Image of a lithograph called "Louis XVI and his Family in the Chateau du Temple," by Edgar Melville Ward.

In 1954, a group of climbers on Chile's El Plomo Mountain found the mummy of a young Inca boy.

Dr. Johan Reinhard and his team found two mummies near the summit of Ampato (at an elevation of 19,200 feet).

Indonesians have cut-down native trees and replaced them with palm oil trees. This has led to environmental damage.

When Stalin was leader of the Soviet Union, he implemented an industrialization program which transformed the USSR.

Not long before he dies, Jackie Robinson writes the story of his life.

John McCrae's poem, "In Flanders Field," is often recited on Veterans' Day. Learn the story behind the poem. It is one of the most-quoted war poems in...

Thomas Clarkson describes and depicts the shocking transport of slaves during the Middle Passage for the public to behold.

Irish girls who had personal or familial issues in their lives were sometimes removed from their homes and sent to places known as "Magdalene Laundrie...

During the 1930s, photographers like Russell Lee documented the living and working conditions of migrant farm workers in America, including the interi...

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