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.
Mary Dyer defies Puritan authorities and leaves Massachusetts with Hutchinson, but makes the mistake of going back to England.
Mary Dyer defies Puritan authorities and leaves Massachusetts with Hutchinson, but makes the mistake of going back to England.
On March 3, 1887, Helen Keller's life changed. Anne Sullivan, a teacher in the art of "finger spelling," agrees to help the Keller family. Perhaps the...
Eruptions lead to the river of mud, hot ash and gases that bury Pompeii.
During the Tampa Bay Devil Rays tryouts, thirty-five year-old Morris throws 98 mph pitches.
Warm water helps the "Perfect Storm" gain intensity as the low pressure deepens; this creates massive waves of 70 feet and higher.
Blacks are in favor of forced busing to get educational equality, but whites protest.
"Cavorite" - a fictitious substance that allows flight - is found by Dr. Cavor, inWells'novel -The First Men in the Moon.
Religious riots throughout India cause the deaths of about 2,000 people.
Fisher authors his own life's story and screen play.
K-19 suffers a potential nuclear meltdown from cracks in the primary cooling tube.
Illinois has a law allowing husbands to declare their wives insane and have them committed to an asylum.
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