Social Studies Story Briefs

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.

This image depicts a page from the "Deeds of Alexander the Great" (Alexandri Magni Historia) also known as Manuscript (Cod. Lat. 161).  This impo...

By May 18, 2010, an expanding oil slick resulting from Deepwater Horizon's explosion, was just off the Mississippi Delta.

Blair Manuel - from Gonzales, Louisiana - was 56 years old on the day Deepwater Horizon exploded.

In this photo, Dale Burkeen - victim of the Deepwater Horizon explosion - is with his son, Timothy, age 6.

Jason Anderson was the most senior of the eleven men who died in the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

Roy Wyatt Kemp was scheduled to come home, for a time, the day after Deepwater Horizon exploded.

Shane Roshto, an employee of Transocean, was 22 years old on the 20th of April, 2010.

Even before Rome left Britannia, Anglo-Saxons tried to invade Britain. The Romans defended against such invasions by building forts along Britain''s c...

John Vachon was a photographer for the Farm Security Administration where, he helped to document American life during the Great Depression.

When he was unable to run the entire race, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Derek Redmond did something even better.

Thomas Clarkson and his colleagues on the "Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade" wanted to create a visual picture of a slave's life during ...

The force of the explosion, which destroyed the BLT Headquarters in Beirut, was so powerful that people in nearby buildings - such as headquarters for...

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