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.

Religious leaders in Cleveland protest the buidling of a segregated school, but a deadly accident fails to stop its construction.

Even before the Civil War was over, President Lincoln wanted an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which freed slaves throughout the country. The Amen...

One of Australia's most popular writers - before he died in 1938 - was given a very long name at birth: Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

Clement Clark Moore, author of the now-famous "Night Before Christmas," published his poem on December 23, 1823 in the "Troy Sentinel" newspaper.

Clint Hill, a Secret Service officer for JFK, shared his memory of the day President Kennedy was fatally shot.

This image depicts a facsimile page from the Codex Vaticanus (the original of which dates to the mid-4th Century, A.D.). The specific page, which we s...

There was a time when religion and science were linked. During those medieval days, moralisées - such as Codex Vindobonensis 2554 - illustrated how r...

A moralisée, popular in the medieval era, is a pictorial Bible in which Biblical events and their “moralizations” are presented in ...

Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.

Bass Reeves carried two revolvers known as "Peacemakers." The guns were made by Colt and were also called (among other things) a six-shooter.

Although they had been successful at Lexington, the British Regulars were not as fortunate at Concord.

Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the detective-story genre, left-behind a major mystery involving his own death. Was he the victim of cooping, an illeg...

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