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.
A note in the purported Maybrick "Ripper" diary indicates that after the writer leaves the Whitechapel area, he kills a victim in Manchester, England.
Britons remaining in their homeland rally and fight back through the telling of heroic tales, such as Beowulf.
The U.S. landscape changes from a place of peaceful, comfortable living to a land destroyed by warfare.
Beethoven's last public appearance is at the premiere of his 9th Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824.
Slave children like Fred had little clothing or food, no bedding, no education, and saw frequent and bloody beatings.
Greek mythology says that Achilles is half man and half-god; Achilles' only vulnerability is his heel.
On October 22, 1962, JFK tells the American people about the Cuban missile crisis.
Oliver Wendell Holmes writes a Supreme Court decision which allows people to say what they think but not necessarily avoid punishment.
Britain's "high society" is closed to all who are not born into the upper class.
Over the years, 50 people confess to Short's murder, but the case remains officially open.
Wyatt Earp, a lawman, is arrested and charged with murdering Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury and Billy Clanton.
In 1902, A.E.W. Mason's novel, The Four Feathers, highlights a soldier's fight against fear in the Sudan, and his reaction to feathers, a symbol of co...
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