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.

Selma, a 2014 film, is about the efforts to march between Selma and Montgomery, during March of 1965, which became "Bloody Sunday." Activits attempted...

New York City was clear and beautiful on the morning of September 11, 2001.

When American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, even reporters inside the building werent sure what was happening.

In 2001, Gedeon and Jules Naudet were filming a documentary about a young New York City firefighter from Engine 7, Ladder 1.

Four separate airplanes were hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001.

Soon after the North Tower was damaged, another group of hijackers smashed a second plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

On the 24th of April, 1916, Ernest Shackleton realized his shipthe Endurancewas so badly stuck in ice that he had to take other measures to protect hi...

The Shah of Iran was ill when he left America for a short stay in Panama.  While in that Central American country - during mid-January, 1980 - ...

Shah Reza Pahlavi was forced to leave his country - ostensibly, on a vacation but actually, never to return - in January of 1979.

In October of 1971, the Shah of Iran sponsored an event which further ruptured the relationship between himself and "his people.

Happy Oceans Day! Watch a Great White capture a favorite prey - an Elephant Seal - which it attacks with stunning quickness. The unwary seal has littl...

When William T. Sherman, one of the Union's leading generals, led his troops on a mission now known as "Sherman's March to the Sea," his primary objec...

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