What does it mean to have a "world view?" How does "thinking about the meaning of life" translate into "living life?" Who are the world's great thinkers? Is Aristotle still relevant? This Collection features philosophy-related stories.
Hammurabi codifies 282 laws on a tall stele (slab) using cuneiform script.
Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letteris a tale of Puritan pride and punishment.
The pillory is a form of punishment in Colonial America, but it traces its roots to Britain.
After WWII, Greece fights a civil war - civilians against the army - and then, in 1953, there is a terrible earthquake.
Within a year after Bonhoeffer and his colleagues started the Confessing Church, the Nazis were no longer content to merely humiliate Jews. Why mere...
Hitler creates the Nuremberg Laws to discriminate against Jews.
A detailed description of concentration camps that are part of Hitler's "Final Solution.'
Hitler charged Heinrich Himmler with carrying out the "Final Solution" - the Nazis' plan to rid Germany of all Jews and other political undesirables. ...
Carl Brashear is born in 1931 to sharecropping parents, who live in Kentucky during the time of restrictive "Jim Crow Laws."
Illuminated manuscripts record deeds of kings and daily life of their subjects.
Illustrations help make learning law, and verifying legal statues, less tedious.
Dore, an artist from France, creates seventy-five images of Dante's Purgatory.
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