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.

Lewis Hines takes pictures of children working in dangerous American mines.

Much of the southern part of Britain is occupied by Angles; the area, called Angle-land, later becomes England.

Virus hunters from Belgium, also known as "Disease Cowboys," arrive in Yambuku to begin investigating a killer, still-unnamed virus. They are on the t...

The Anglo-Saxon attacks are harsh and frequent and the Britons are not able to stop them.

Ireland successfully declares itself free.

Wolfe Tone becomes a political activist to stop British control of Ireland.

The Irish tenant farmer grows only one crop for both food and cash: the potato.

In Denmark, the body of a man from the Iron Age is found; it is the peat bog that causes the mummified remains to be so well preserved.

After Margaret's fall from power, she travels and lectures, then dies at 87.

There is no solid proof that the duel between Konings and Zaitsev occurs, but it is fact that the Russian snipers help win the war.

Historians are not sure if the duel is true or Russian legend.

The Ayatollah moves to France and begins to air his views in order to make his country into an Islamic Republic.

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