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.

This image depicts Heinrich Schliemann before he began his excavations at the Hisarlik Mound.

What is a scimitar? It is a weapon which, among other things, Alexander the Great's men used to fight against elephants.

Learning lessons from the three Ghosts, Scrooge is appalled at the way looters are selling the stuff they've taken from a dead man's home.

When the Terror and Erebus went missing, how did searchers know where to look for them?

On the 7th of March, 1965, Alabama law-enforcement officials attacked civil-rights marchers as they attempted to cross the bridge in Selma. These are ...

It starts on 7 March 1965 when a civil rights procession, from Selma to Montgomery, turns violent. MLK gets involved and leads the second attempt (on ...

When kidnappers capture Africans, intending to make them slaves, they use shackles (among other things) to bind them.

Racism in America, during the days before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was even manifested in law-enforcement officials.

At the height of the Everest climbing season, we think about Sherpas and how they help adventurers climb the world's tallest mountain. In both 2014 an...

Prisoners who were sent to Siberian penal colonies, during Tsarist times, could be punished with facial branding (among other things).

In the fall of 1187, Saladin and his forces besieged the city of Jerusalem. It was not the first time the ancient city was subjected to a siege by for...

This painting of King Sigismund I, from Poland, was created by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-1586) around 1553. The oil-on-tin plate measures 19.5 ...

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