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.
The eldest of Edward III's children, Edward, the Black Prince, was the most famous medieval warrior of the day.
Lawmakers begin to protect working children in the early 1900s with age limits.
The Egyptians are experts at creating mummies; after death, the pharaohs after death went through a process of mummification.
Eighty years later, on the anniversary of their brutal execution, the Russian people lay the Romanov family to rest in St. Petersburg.
General Eisenhower visits many Nazi death camps to document their existence and crimes.
Starving families, with no home, walk the roads to nowhere until they die.
Alexander and his army come face to face with Asian elephants in India.
Elizabeth Packard participates in an open-study Bible class where the teacher encourages many points of view.
Mary Tudor names Elizabeth as her successor; Elizabeth becomes Queen at age twenty-five and reigns for nearly 45 years.
Mary tries, unsuccessfully for 19 years, to get help from Elizabeth, who imprisons her.
Her father sends Packard to an insane asylum in Massachusetts when she is 23.
In Illinois, married women have few rights; a husband can commit his wife to a mental institution against her will.
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