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.

Read a poem about the life of Caitlin Hammaren, a 19 year-old sophomore in International Studies and French.

Learn what it is like to be a soldier during the Civil War through pictures from the National Archives.

Many Japanese Americans go to Camp Manzanar, receive vaccinations, and live in desert conditions.

Camp Poston was situated in the Colorado River Indian Reservation.

Photographs, documents and drawings show the appalling life in prisoner of war camps O'Donnell and Cabanatuan.

Canadian troops land at Juno Beach and face fierce German opposition.

The Wright brothers, and other flight pioneers, study how birds fly and use that understanding to design the first gliders.

Many Atlantic hurricanes begin in the warm ocean waters near the Cape Verde Islands off the western coast of Africa.

Capone is convicted on federal charges of tax evasion in 1931 and sentenced to federal prison; he is released on parole in 1939.

How Captain Cook changed the way Hawaiians lived.

Captain Cook in Hawaii

Learn how Captain Cook died in Hawaii.

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