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.
Passing through the frozen part of the Inferno, Dante and Virgil encounter heads which seem to be completely frozen in ice. Gustave Dore illust...
Galileo Galilei was born at a time when people believed the sun revolved around the earth - a theory originally proposed by Aristotle.
Gandhi urged a national strike after he returned to his country. The Amritsar Massacre soon followed.
Gandhi referred to South Africa as his second home, and it was there that the young lawyer decided to non-violently oppose a racially motivated law.
Gandhi once told an associate (V.
When people have a very contagious disease, how do doctors keep from getting sick, too?
Were crematoria, at Nazi camps, used to dispose of bodies of people who were gassed at these camps? The issue is still debated, particularly by indivi...
As Dante and his traveling companion, Virgil, continue their journey, they soon come to a place which looks like a cave in this engraving by Gustave D...
Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife (Sophie), is very ill. Knowing he will soon die himself, the young man's action...
A very inhospitable place, the Gedrosian Desert claims the lives of many people (and animals) who travel with Alexander the Great.
Worried that people would begin to doubt that Nazi atrocities had ever occurred, General Eisenhower ordered film makers and photographers to document ...
Continental Army General Horatio Gates was a war hero, but he was also ready to lead a mutiny after the Revolutionary War was over. It was called the ...
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