Ethics Story Briefs

Poem about an aging father and the love of family, by Carole Bos.

Poem on father-daughter relationships, by Jeannine Proulx.

Danzig, a city in German-controlled Prussia during WWII—and now, as Gdansk, part of Poland—was particularly damaged during the war.Hitler ...

For centuries, London's Fleet Prison was a terrible place. People who owed debts were routinely jailed there.

When we cut-down our trees, we do more than eliminate trees. We also harm, or eliminate, the habitat of other creatures who live in the forests.

After Erasmus Jacobs, son of a poor South African farmer, finds a sparkly pebble along the southern bank of the Orange River, parts of the South Afric...

Not long after she received her diary, as a birthday present, Anne Frank and her father took a walk together near their Amsterdam home.

Three days after Anne Frank told "Kitty" about an unsettling conversation with her father - that the Frank family may have to go into hiding somewhere...

Slaves helped to build the White House which upset First Lady Abigail Adams. She and John Adams were the first family to move into the Executive Mansi...

Scientists say that DNA is the instruction manual for building life, but what does that really mean?

Not normally a writer of poetry - or anything else as a published author - Mary Elizabeth Frye (an American who lived in Baltimore) was moved by the s...

Despite her obvious intelligence, Dorothy Height faced racial discrimination during her youth. Barnard College refused to accept her, but Height was ...