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.

One year later, we remember ... As 298 people aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 are flying at 33,000 feet above a disputed area in Ukraine, a surfac...

During Germany's occupation of Norway, during World War II, the Norwegians suffered great hardships. Beyond the disastrous occupation itself, many peo...

The railway carriage in which Germany surrendered to France, at the end of World War I, had been housed in a French museum.

Frances Adeline Miller Seward, the wife of President Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William Seward, was respected in her own right. Among other t...

On the 1st of May, 1960, Francis Gary Powers (1929-1977) was a U-2 pilot flying an American spy plane over the Soviet Union.

In 1775, Francis Marion was elected to South Carolina's Provincial Congress.

Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts (1921) and deals with Polio until his death (1945).

Originally owned by Franklin & Armfield, dealers in slaves, this slave pen was located not far from the U.S. Capitol.

After Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white man, and Dr.

During the summer of 1964, university students from various places in the U.S. travel to Mississippi. Their plan is to help register African-Americans...

After Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman went missing - following their release from questioning at Sheriff Lawrence Raineys jail - hundreds of people look...

France celebrates "Bastille Day" every July 14th. Learn more about it with this humorous video clip from "Horrible Histories."

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