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.

Betty Bersinger finds Elizabeth's disfigured body on a sidewalk near vacant lots. View crime scene photos.

Queen Elizabeth visits the British camp at West Tilbury and delivers a memorable speech to rally her troops.

Though the President issues the proclamation, it is not a law and slaveholders in the South, who have left the Union, can (and do) ignore it.

Read a poem about the life of Emily Hilscher, a 19 year-old freshman in Animal and Poultry Sciences.

Two white men torture and murder young Emmett Till.

Sixty years on, remember Emmett Till whose visit with relatives in Mississippi led to grossly unfair treatment under Jim Crow laws. His Mother's react...

Mary is to marry the sickly son of Henry VIII, but Catholic forces oppose it, resulting in a war.

Mary grows up in the French court but returns to Scotland after her husband, heir to the French throne, dies.

Whenever Ireland tries to regain their independence, England defeats them.

English colonists in America are tired of the taxes and jurisdictions that the British impose, and make their intentions known.

Eighty-five percent of the King James Version of the Bible is taken directly from William Tyndale's English translation.

Here we see an example of an Enigma code book which Germany used during World War II. The title, Sondermaschinen Schlüssel, means "Special Machin...

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