Social Studies Chapters

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.

Religious freedom is not available in Tudor England for people who, among other things, want to translate the Bible into English (or even quote from i...

Benedict Arnold seeks safety on a British ship.

Francis Marion ("The Patriot" calls him Benjamin Martin - played by Mel Gibson) and his band of guerillas chase the British out of South Carolina.

The fall of Berlin provokes the end of the war, but there are still troubles ahead for the city.

William Poole, known as Bill the Butcher, is the chief "enforcer" of the "Native American" (referring to people born in the U.S.) political party.

Historians are not sure who made the first cards, which stiffened a pack of cigarettes, but James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke gets credit.

View photographs from the U.S. National Archives of the birth of the World Trade Center.

By 1860, Louis Prang is mass-producing small trade cards to introduce, or advertise, products.

Ireland's patron saint, St. Patrick, is born somewhere in Britain probably near the end of the fourth century.

It's October 3, 1993 and a Black Hawk chopper - Super 64 - is flying over Mogadishu. Soon thereafter, the crew tries to recover hurt or dead soldiers....

The helicopters sent to Somalia are Black Hawks; they have many uses including carrying troops and weapons.

Black maids raise white children as their own but are still treated as inferiors.

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