Social Studies Audio Narrations

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.

Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton did not like each other. Listen to a story about the deadly, and illegal, duel between the two men.

Art is sometimes created for political purposes. Was that the case for Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen?

Sickened by the slave trade, William Wilberforce begins a 20-year quest to end the practice.

Writers of children's stories, who also abhorred slavery, wrote books to paint a vivid picture of American chattel slavery.

Abe Lincoln began his life in a one-room cabin in rural Kentucky. He was the first person in his family who could read.

After Abe Lincoln was elected President, in 1860, Southerners began to secede from the Union.

Accused of spreading the plague during medieval times, Jews were burned in Strasbourg.

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