Social Studies Audios

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.

In the fall of 1900, Helen Keller became the first blind-deaf college student.

In the last chapter of her book, Helen thanks many people who have helped her along the way.

After the controversy about "The Frost King," Helen returned to her family in Tuscumbia.

Still the youngest-ever Nobel Laureate for Literature, Rudyard Kipling was enormously popular during his lifetime.

This audio clip, from the National Archives, is the swearing-in and inaugural address of John F.

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bront (1816-1855), remains popular even though it was first published in October of 1847.

Charlotte Bront once served as a governess at Stone Grappe Hall.

In Chapter III, of Jane Eyre, Mr.

Reporters were unsure of the President's condition at Parkland Hospital as they tried to keep the public informed of events.

CBS IS THERE (later, YOU ARE THERE) was an "old-time radio" program where CBS "reporters" and "correspondents" dramatized important historical events ...

Thomas ("Daddy") Rice created a character ("Jim Crow") which he incorporated into his popular minstrel show.

Helen Keller never enjoyed math, and she found learning algebra and geometry particularly hard.

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