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.

Qin Shi Huang-Di buries people alive and performs other harsh measures in battle and while building the Great Wall and his Mausoleum.

Dyer protests the harsh anti-Quaker laws and is caught, tried, and threatened with hanging.

Dyer protests the harsh anti-Quaker laws and is caught, tried, and threatened with hanging.

My story is about the Hawaiian Overthrow in Hawaii and how the throne was taken away from Queen Liliuokalani (the first and last queen of Hawaii). It ...

Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letteris a tale of Puritan pride and punishment.

Three methods of torture are very painful, the head crusher, the rack, and water torture.

The 2-week back-and-forth battle and amount of death and destruction at Heartbreak Ridge forces the UN and North Korea back to the bargaining table.

Paris falls in love with Helen and abducts her. Sparta's King Menelaus is already Helen's husband, and talks the Greeks into going to war with Troy to...

At age 22, Helen writes the account of her life. Read (and hear) the first 11 chapters.

Read, and hear, the remaining chapters of Helen's autobiography.

With the help of Anne Sullivan, Helen completes college and travels the world writing and speaking to audiences.

General James M. Gavin foresees using armed helicopters to bring US troops (sky troopers) in by air.

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