Social Studies Videos

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.

The Huns had no written language, but there is a written description of Attila by Priscus, a Greek-speaking Roman historian who met him.

When Rome itself was threatened, Pope Leo agreed to meet the Hunnic ruler to beg for peace.

Attila led the Huns for eight short but dramatic years, but his sons were unable to folllow in his footsteps.

One of the Scottish ballads which Abe Lincoln loved was "Auld Robin Gray.

This clip, from the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, depicts sections from the "Auschwitz Album," donated by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier.

Auschwitz became the worst Nazi death camp of all.

THIS VIDEO CONTAINS RECREATIONS OF AN UPRISING AT AUSCHWITZ, IN OCTOBER OF 1944, FROM A FILM CALLED THE GREY ZONE.  IT DEPICTS UNSETTLING EVENT...

Although 583 people died when two Boeing 747s collided in Tenerife, some individuals aboard the Pan American flight survived.

Trailer for the film, "Aviator," by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo di Caprio.

Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution, was no longer a young man when he returned from more than a decade of forced exile, in ea...

On the 20th of January, 2009, Barack H.

En route to his new job as America's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln took a whistle stop train tour from Philadelphia to Washington, D.

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