History Study Guides


Chief Seattle

Rappler

Valerie Kaur

What if this darkness, is not the darkness of tomb, but the darkness of the womb?! What if our America is not dead, but a country that is waiting to be born? What if the story of our country is one long labor? What if this is our nation's great transition?! Breath! Push! We will breathe... in love, through love. Our revolutionary love is the magic we will show our children!

Greta Thunberg

All we have to do is wake up and change.

Winston Churchill

China

No one knows for sure how old Chinese civilization is. We do know that it’s one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, and that it is the only one to have existed unbroken from it's earliest beginning into modern times. Legends claim that the first rulers in China were the Xia Dynasty, from around 2100 to 1600 BCE, and that Yu was the first emperor.

US Fighters in Manchuria

Little known facts about US involvement in the Pacific War prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Amanda Gorman

In order to write, I must have music. Without. Music. I. Can. Not. Write.

Kamala Harris

On March 16, 2021, US Vice President Kamala Harris gave the following speech to the United Nations at the 65th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

The Christmas Truce of 1914

Who Is Sandy Weill?

Julia Ward Howe

Arise, all women who have hearts!