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.

Read a poem about the life of Matthew Gwaltney, a 24 year-old second year Masters student in Environmental Engineering.

While Princess Bernice Bishop is last member ofthe real Kamehameha dynasty, Matt King is the fictional heir.

Read a poem about the life of Matt La Porte, a 20 year-old freshman in Political Science.

Schreck (which literally means "fright"), is the brilliant, creepy actor who brings Nosferatu to life.

It's May 4, 1970, and Ohio National Guardsmen open fire on students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State, killing 4 unarmed students and wounding ...

A white man fatally shoots Medgar Evers because he works for the NAACP and is trying to gain equal rights for blacks.

Life in medieval Europe consists of poor hygiene, close quarters, living and eating with animals and farming; seemingly, everyone has fleas.

In medieval Europe, the plague strikes down all classes of people regardless of wealth, education or social status.

Twenty-nine Navajos enter the Marines to become code talkers in the Pacific Theater of WWII.

Neanderthals, believed to be an extinct species of the genus Homo, appear similar to modern humans.

Learn more about eleven of the Red Tail pilots.

By 1932, Melvin Purvis is Special-Agent-in-Charge of the FBI in Chicago with the primary job of catching Dillinger.

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