Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general

In the United States today, Hispanics make up the largest minority group.

Abraham Rodriquez speaks for many Puerto Ricans when he writes, "e;Of course I'm Puerto Rican.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

History is full of many stories.

AlaskaAmerica's forty-ninth statehas a long and rich history.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

The United States boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans ideas about their country have grown as well.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

By the beginning of the 1800s, America was a young country led by people who were ready to fight to defend American rights on the seas and at home.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

"e;The arc of the moral universe is long,"e; Martin Luther King Jr.

On November 4, 2008, Americans went to the polls and elected the first black president in the history of the United States.

Many people dream of owning their own business or making it to the top of the corporate ladder.

During the early 1990s, successful music producer Jermaine Dupri started So So Def Records.

When Shawn Carter, an aspiring rapper with the stage name Jay-Z, couldn't get his career off the ground at a major record label, he didn't get discouraged.

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Since the mid-1990s, Tim Mosleybetter known as Timbalandhas been one of the most in-demand and critically respected producers in the music industry.

Hip-hop started on the streets of New York with African American youths in the 1970s.

For a few years in the mid-1990s, a small music label called Death Row stood atop the hip-hop world.

Founded in New Orleans in the early 1990s, Cash Money Records faced an uphill battle as it struggled to gain respect.

The story of Bad Boy Entertainment is one of triumph and tragedy.

Historically, theocracy has been a fairly rare form of government.

In an oligarchy, political power rests with a small privileged group.

Monarchy is a form of government in which a hereditary ruler serves as head of state, typically for life.

How did large, complex states develop from small clans and nomadic tribes?

In the turbulent years after World War I, a new type of governing philosophy took shape in a handful of countries.

Today, the basic ideas underpinning democracy--that government exists for the benefit of the people, and that it must have their consent to be legitimate--may seem obvious.

For several decades during the 20th century, communism was one of the world's dominant forms of government.

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China, whose recorded history extends back several thousand years, was once the most advanced civilization on earth.

Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China has been a one-party state in which the Chinese Communist Party holds a monopoly of political power.

An immense land, China is approximately the same size as the United States.

Have you ever seen the boisterous lion dances or heard the multitude of firecrackers in Chinatown during the Chinese New Year?

Over the centuries, Chinese civilization has produced many important inventions and innovations, including paper, printing, porcelain, the magnetic compass, and gunpowder.

What would China's revolutionary leader, Mao Zedong, think if he were alive today?

In 1976, at the death of its longtime leader Mao Zedong, China was in a state of economic stagnation and social chaos.

China has a rich artistic tradition extending back thousands of years.

China is one of the world's oldest uninterrupted civilizations, and the essential culture and identity of the Chinese people--the Chinese Way--was formed more than 2,000 years ago.

Although graced with picturesque beaches, lush rain forests, and abundant diamond mines, the tiny West African nation of Sierra Leone is a land haunted by tragedy.

Located on the westernmost point of Africa, Senegal is a land of stunning coastlines, semi-desert sands, fertile river valleys, grassland plains, and tropical rainforests.

With more than 170 million people, Nigeria is Africa's most populous country.

For centuries the Kingdom of Morocco, located in the northwest corner of Africa, has been a crossroads for trade between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.

The early history of Liberia was promising.

The name of the Ivory Coast (also known as Cote d'Ivoire) comes from its history; at one time, Europeans came to the region to hunt elephants for their valuable ivory.

Ghana, located on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, was once known as the Gold Coast because of its vast deposits of this precious mineral.

The name Democratic Republic of the Congo is a misnomer: the country has never been truly democratic or a republic.