Neil Ieremia began dancing after years of rheumatic fever left him weak and homebound. Studying dance while growing up in a time when second-generation Samoans were raised with “a rugby ball in one ...

BEN WATTENBERG: What did Americans of the 1930s think about the government's increased role in their lives? Previously, we would not have been able to answer that question with any certainty. But the ...

Nazi ideology did not explicitly prescribe the system of camps that has become emblematic of Nazi terror, but the way the camps functioned reflected some key points in Nazi thinking. Central to Hitler ...

Indeed, youth service (which we use as an inclusive term to include social action, activism, voluntarism, service-learning, and missions) has become an important part of religious youth work, public ...

Astronomers measure distances to the stars in terms of light years, units that combine time and distance. One light year is the distance light travels in one year; so if you look at a star ten light ...

Students will use information they have learned from viewing parts of the PBS "Napoleon" series, study and research about the U.S. Constitution to compare the effects of Napoleon's civil code on ...

Students will use information they have learned from the PBS "Napoleon" series along with other examples from history to examine the separation of church and state in national governance. Students ...

Cinematographer Francis Kenny and Timothy Ferris on Key Biscayne by Mark Diamond Enlarge Image Timothy Ferris interviewing Robert Smith on Key Biscayne by Mark Diamond Enlarge Image Robert Smith on ...

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .

NANCY KOEHN: The 1920s were a very important decade in the lives of consumer society in America. Many of those goods, from hoop skirts to candy bars to cereal, had been around for several decades by ...

QUESTION: What are the most surprising things you find in studying the Great Depression? DAVID KENNEDY: One of the most surprising things that I discovered about the Depression was the degree of ...

The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo, sculttore”, was also, in spite of himself, a painter. Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum, in ...