Photo Credits

Grade 6


Facing Fear BananaStock/Jupiterimages/Getty Images

How Cliff Diving Works: Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
The Science of Choking Under Pressure: ©Corbis
5 Fears Mentally Strong People Face Head-On: ©Ryan McVay/Digital Vision/Getty Images
Dr. Maya Angelou on Overcoming Fear: ©Dennis MacDonald/Alamy
Why we’ll always be obsessed with – and afraid of – monsters: ©cineclassico/Alamy
Rare Brain Disorder Prevents All Fear: ©taviphoto/Shutterstock
How MRI Works: ©Corbis
The science of stage fright (and how to overcome it):
You Can’t Sleep While Traveling Because Your Brain Acts Like a Dolphin’s: Comstock Images/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
What Is Cliff Diving?: Brand X Pictures / Getty Images
Evolutionary psychology explains why haunted houses creep us out: ©outchill/Adobe Stock
Is Fear Contagious?: ©Westend61/Getty Images
Dr. Maya Angelou, Poet: ©B&Y Photography/Alamy
What Really Scares People: Top 10 Phobias: ©Exactostock/SuperStock
One day, you might be able to banish your biggest fears with a pill: Liquidlibrary/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Here’s the Science Behind the World’s Rarest and Weirdest Phobias: ©g-stockstudio/Shutterstock
Scientists have found a way to stimulate the BRAIN to boost your courage and remove fear: ©RayArt Graphics/Alamy
People Are Increasingly Worried A.I. Will Make Daily Life Worse: ©Tatiana Shepeleva/Shutterstock
How to Not Be Scared of a New School: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
13 Scariest Freshwater Animals: Juniors Bildarchiv/Alamy

Animal Intelligence ©Digital Vision/Getty Images

Elephants Outwit Humans During Intelligence Test: Richard van Kesteren/Alamy
How Smart Is An Octopus?: ©Paul Whitehead /Alamy
Horses are smarter than we realize: Comstock/Getty Images
What Do Cats Think About Us? You May Be Surprised: Comstock/Getty Images
Animal Cam Education: ©goce risteski/iStockphoto.com/Getty Images
Pigcasso: Pot-Bellied Pig Produces Award-Winning Art In Mokelumne Hill: ©foodonwhite/Shutterstock
First Proof That Wild Animals Really Can Communicate With Us: © searagen / Alamy
A New Frontier in Animal Intelligence: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
Cats Are Not Dependent on Humans, Study Shows: DAJ
Guard Dogs 101: What You Need to Know Before Getting a Dog for Protection: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
Dogs Detecting Disease: Meet America’s Cancer-Sniffing Canines: Comstock/Getty Images
New Zealand’s Sea Lions Have Returned: Crashing Soccer Games, Golf Courses, and Public Pools: ©Alexey Seafarer/Shutterstock
Opinion: We Didn’t Domesticate Dogs. They Domesticated Us.: ©Cybernesco/iStockphoto.com
Bat Echo: Rolf Nussbaumer Photography/Alamy
What’s the Waggle Dance? And Why Do Honeybees Do It?: Don Farrall/Digital Vision
Yes, Animals Think and Feel. Here’s How We Know: ©Ermolaev Alexandr/Adobe Stock
Like humans, these big-brained birds may owe their smarts to long childhoods: ©Ivan Bliznetsov/iStockphoto.com
Police geese: A Chinese crime-fighting plan isn’t quite as ridiculous as it sounds:
Monkeys Can Do Math: ©DLILLC/Corbis
Tool Use Found in Octopuses: ©Juniors Bildarchiv/Alamy

Dealing with Disaster ©Corbis

Natural Disasters: ©Corbis
Tsunami: An interactive guide that could save your life: ©Reniw-Imagery/iStockphoto.com
How to Survive an Avalanche: ©Corbis
Ready: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
How South Korea Reined in the Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down: ©leungchopan/Shutterstock
Tornado Safety: ©Minerva Studio/Shutterstock
Beautiful Plastic Sculptures Tell Ugly Story of Human Garbage in the Ocean: ©s0ulsurfing - Jason Swain/Moment/Getty Images
Ready for Wildfire: ©Mark Gibson/Photo Disc/Getty Images
Trash-mapping expedition sheds light on “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
How a Nuclear Meltdown Works: ©H. Wiesenhofer/PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
Florida middle schoolers win big for inventing device to stop flash floods: ©ricardoazoury/Getty Images/iStockphoto.com
Heard, Felt, but Barely Seen: How a Volcano Severed Tonga from the World: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
How Search-and-Rescue Dogs Work: ©Corbis
Fukushima nuclear crisis continues to unfold: Photodisc/Getty Images
Video Feature: Apps to Cope and Help in a Disaster: Stockdisc/Getty Images
What Is Drought?: ©Evgeny Dubinchuk/Fotolia
This Shook Lebanon Like Nothing Before: ©Claudiad/iStockphoto.com
Shark Attack Survivors Unite to Save Sharks: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
2015 is warmest year on record, NOAA and NASA say: Hans Neleman/ Photodisc/ Getty Images
Hurricane Katrina: ©Stocktrek Images, Inc./Alamy

Making Your Voice Heard ©Alvaro Ortiz/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Texting May Be Taking a Toll: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
What Are The Dangers Of A Single Story?: ©Sam Dudgeon/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
A New Wrinkle on School Uniforms: ©Age Fotostock
Alaska Native Girl Leads Animated Kids TV Show in US First: ©eyeCatchLight/Fotolia
Teens around the world are lonelier than a decade ago. The reason may be smartphones.: ©fizkes/Shutterstock
Nouns Slow Down Our Speech: ©Corbis
The First Writings: ©kmiragaya/Fotolia
Rowlett teen makes run for city council seat: ©Mike Flippo/Shutterstock
Video Games are a ‘great equalizer’ for people with disabilities: ©belushi/Shutterstock
Black interns: ‘You just need to give us a chance’: ©Flamingo Images/Shutterstock
Stylized Fairy Tales Inspired Sandra Cisneros’ Cross-Cultural Voice: ©Corbis
Listening Is an Act of Love: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Langston Hughes: Biography: ©Tetra Images/Corbis
Spoken Without Words: Poetry with ASL SLAM: ©B&Y Photography/Alamy
My invention that made peace with lions: ©Tony Campbell/Shutterstock
Young, Black Native activists say it’s time to appreciate Indigenous diversity: ©funky-data/iStock/Getty Images
Illegal Wildlife Trade: ©feraru nicolae/Fotolia
A promising test for pancreatic cancer . . . from a teenager: ©olivier/Shutterstock
The Life of the Buddha: ©John Wang/Photodisc/Getty Images
Art Therapy: Self-Expression Reduces Stress: ©Rana Faure/Fancy/Corbis

Decisions That Matter ©Radius Images/Alamy

Powell Calls His U.N. Speech a Lasting Blot on His Record: ©Joseph Sohm/Visions of America, LLC/Alamy
Adolescence and the Agony of Decision Making: ©Steve Debenport/iStockphoto.com
Robert Frost’s Commonly Misinterpreted “The Road Not Taken”: ©Radius Images/Corbis
Biography: Malala Yousafzai: ©ESB Professional/Shutterstock
Barbara Pope was the Rosa Parks of D.C., but her story was mostly forgotten: ©Savushkin/E+/Getty Images
Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise: ©C. Lee/PhotoLinkPhotodisc/Getty Images
What Does It Mean to Cross the Rubicon?: Comstock/Getty Images
Paul Revere: Fast Facts: ©S Solum/PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
WordPress: Hilde Lysiak: ©Ricky Goshen/Dreamstime
Remembering History: Ruby Bridges: ©Thomas J. O'Halloran/Everett Collection Historical/Alamy
Timeline of Events Leading to the Brown v. Board of Education Decision, 1954: ©Africa Studio/Shutterstock
Decision-Making is Still a Work in Progress for Teenagers: ©Andrea Danti/Fotolia
Why do we make bad choices?: ©Corbis
This school cafeteria manager has gone bananas. The kids love it.: Comstock/Getty Images
Human Rights Watch: Videos and Photos: ©Juanmonino/E+/Getty Images
Robert Frost’s Last Adventure: ©Olivier Le Queinec/Shutterstock
Property Brothers: Living the Dream: Rupert King/Digital Vision/Getty Images
Mendez v. Westminster: Desegregating California’s Schools: ©Andy Dean Photography/iStockphoto.com
Walking in Their Shoes: A Venezuelan Expat’s Humanitarian Feat: ©ballabeyla/Fotolia
Malala Yousafzai urges world leaders to take urgent action on Afghanistan: ©JStone/Shutterstock

What Tales Tell The Palma Collection/Getty Images

9 Legends of American Folklore: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Chinese New Year Traditions:
Multicultural Cinderella Stories: Photodisc/Getty Images
The Importance of Scaring Children: ©Edward Lara/Shutterstock
Savitri and Satyavan: The legend of the princess who outwitted Death: ©Bartosz Hadyniak/E+/Getty Images
Talos the First Robot: ©aeduard/iStockphoto.com
Eagles: Lions of the Sky: ©Corbis
How the Vikings Worked: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Little Red Riding Hood gets an evolutionary makeover: ©Regissercom/Shutterstock
J.K. Rowling wrote a new fairy tale: ©Kaylie_Kell/Shutterstock
The long-standing myth of sea monsters has a dark explanation: Liquidlibrary/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
9 Legends of American Folklore: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Coatlicue: ©Tandemich/Dreamstime
Odysseus’ Ship: Stephen Frink/Photographer's Choice RF/Getty Images
Rick Riordan: Mythology for middle school: ©Authors Image/Alamy
Rainsticks and Folklore: ©Dani Simmonds/Shutterstock
10 Facts about Madame D’Aulnoy Who Coined the Word Fairytale: ©Denis Belitsky/Shutterstock
How the Costumes of ‘American Born Chinese’ Straddle Fantasy and Reality: ©Nonnakrit/Shutterstock
Rings, dwarves, elves, and dragons: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Old Norse influences:
A Life Lived in a Rapidly Changing World: Samuel L. Clemens, 1835 – 1910: Folio/Alamy

Grade 7


Bold Actions

Pat Tillman: Biography: Photodisc/Getty Images
Bombing Survivor Rebekah Gregory On Marathon: ‘I Took My Life Back Today’: ©Christopher Futcher/E+/Getty Images
Meet Simon Wheatcroft, the blind ultramarathon runner: ©Maridav/iStockphoto.com
These Women Stepped In to Fill a WWII Pilot Shortage: U.S. Air Force photo
Moderna struggles to find 3,000 adolescent volunteers needed for COVID-19 vaccine trial: ©BSIP SA/Alamy
Heroic Georgia dog fights off coyote pack preying on flock of sheep: ©Cristi Matei/Shutterstock
San Jose Teen Honored as Hero For Yosemite Rescue: Photodisc/Getty Images
Nellie Cashman – Pioneering the Mining Camps: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Book Excerpt from The Mountain: My Time on Everest: ©Getty Images
Brazilian Big-Wave Surfer Sets a Record: ©Willyam Bradberry/Shutterstock
The Historic Ski Descent of Half Dome: Photodisc/Getty Images
Female Naval aviators flying high to make history at the Super Bowl: Kim Steele/Photodisc/Getty Images
The road to ruin: are ultra-endurance events worth the risk?:
Kayla Montgomery: Young runner’s brave battle with MS: ©Warren Goldswain/Shutterstock
Navigating Without the Crutch of Technology: ©Andrey_Kuzmin/Shutterstock
Sky Racing: Competitive Paragliding With the World’s Best: jennyt/Shutterstock
What’s your risk of catching COVID? These tools help you to find out: ©mm88/iStockphoto.com
She awoke from a coma. Five months later, she ran the Boston Marathon.: ©Serega/iStockphoto.com
College athletes take steps to form labor union: ©Design Pics/Superstock
Teen sets record as youngest pilot to circle the globe: Jupiterimages/Getty Images

Perception and Reality

3D movie reveals hidden dimensions of universe: ASO FUJITA/a.collectionRF/amana images inc./Alamy
As Life Slips By: Why Eye Movement Doesn’t Blur the Picture: Photodisc/Getty Images
The Neuroscience of Imagination: ©Gwoeii/Shutterstock
Event Horizon: How Space Changes Your Perspective On Life: ©Juergen Faelchle/Shutterstock
Why time feels so weird in 2020: ©Andy Sotiriou/Photodisc/Getty Images
Can You Trust Your Ears?: ©igorstevanovic/Shutterstock
Magnified photos expose the secret beauty of sand grains: Comstock/Getty Images
Beauty Is in the Brain of the Beholder: ©Andrea Danti/Fotolia
What Can Magicians Teach Us about the Brain?: ©Surkov Dimitri/Shutterstock
See what U.S. bills would look like with all women on them: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Eight Ways Your Perception of Reality Is Skewed: ©Corbis
Scientists have solved a classic optical illusion–and the answer’s in your neurons: ©gecko753/Getty Images/iStockphoto.com
How your brain sees the world, according to Kepler: ©Tatiana Makotra/Shutterstock
Secrets Behind the Sidewalk: How 3D Sidewalk Art Is Made: Ingram Publishing/Alamy
Change the Way You Look at Things and the Things You Look at Change: ©irin-k/Shutterstock
AR app lets kids with cancer escape into an imaginary world: ©Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock
Your Brain Perceives Reality By Hallucinating: ©Vinicio Chirivi/EyeEm/EyeEm/Getty Images
Magician Breaks Down How Illusions Work: ©Trevor Williams/Photodisc/Getty Images
Pokémon GO: U.S. Holocaust museum asks players to stay away: ©Christian Richter/Westend61 GmbH/Alamy
Escher’s gravity-defying waterfall: ©Oleksiy Fedorov/Kalium/Age Fotostock

Nature at Work

Winter Splendor Unveiled at Ice Caves: ©Corbis
Brilliant Time-Lapse of Alaska’s Northern Lights: Carol Falcetta/Flickr/Getty Images
Why It’s Impossible to Predict When That Giant Antarctic Ice Sheet Will Split: ©Frank Krahmer/Fuse/Getty Images
Why Ravens and Crows Are Earth’s Smartest Birds: ©D. Longenbaugh/Shutterstock
This is What Happened When an Australian City Gave Trees Email Addresses: ©Artmim/Shutterstock
Kids need to offset ‘screen time’ with ‘nature time’: Comstock/Getty Images
10 Famous Balancing Rocks Around the World: ©John Hoffman/Shutterstock
21 Reasons Why Forests Are Important: ©Sami Sarkis (6)/Alamy
Bees May Understand Zero, a Concept That Took Humans Millennia to Grasp: ©Kuzmin Andrey/Shutterstock
Top 20 Citizen Science Projects of 2020: ©Tom Wang/Shutterstock
Prison Gardens Grow New Lives for Inmates: ©fotolinchen/iStockphoto.com
New ‘Intraterrestrial’ Virus Found in Ocean Depths: ©Cre8tive Studios/Alamy
The History of Earth Day: ©Katrina Brown/Shutterstock
Taking on Turtle Egg Poaching With Hollywood Decoys: ©mattwicks/iStock/Getty Images
A GDP for nature: How measuring the health of the natural world might prevent the next pandemic: ©Evan Bowen-Jones/Alamy
Vultures Halting Killer Diseases: Photodisc/Getty Images
How Do Fireflies Glow? Mystery Solved After 60 Years: ©Fer Gregory/Shutterstock
Why fish do not deserve their reputation for forgetfulness: ©Mike Kemp/RubberBall/Alamy
Inventor Inspired By Childhood Memories Of Fungus: ©Ogis/Fotolia
You Can Still Visit These Six Former National Parks: ©Comstock/Getty Images

Risk and Exploration

Retirement Plan: Transatlantic Kayak Expedition: ©Sam Dudgeon/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Silent Darien: The gap in the world’s longest road: ©rchphoto/Stockphoto.com/Getty Images
These Wild Robots Will Compete to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth: ©craftvision/iStock/Getty Images
What makes a hero?: ©sirtravelalot/Shutterstock
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends Sneak Peek of Mars Landing: ©StockTrek/Photodisc/Getty Images
Harvard Professor Believes He’s Found Fragments of Alien Technology: ©Comstock/Getty Images
Tall storeys: Lucinda Grange’s daredevil photography: McDaniel Woolf/Photodisc/Getty Images
Risks and Challenges: ©Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA
Underwater robot vacuums up lionfish: Georgette Douwma
Indian teen builds world’s ‘lightest satellite’: ©Nastco/iStock/Getty Images
These women are shaping the future of African space exploration: ©PeopleImages/DigitalVision/Getty Images
Chandrayaan-3: India makes historic landing near Moon’s south pole: ©Randall Fung/keepsake RF/Corbis
Pursuing the Impossible, and Coming Out on Top: ©Focus_on_Nature/iStockphoto.com/Getty Images
500-year-old mystery: Wreck off Haiti may be Columbus’ flagship Santa Maria: ©Galina Barskaya/Shutterstock
Deep-Sea Sub Crushed Under Pressure: Stockbyte/Getty Images
How caves give astronauts a preview of life in space: Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
Looking for Life Beyond Earth: Martian Discoveries: NASA
Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal: ©Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock
The Amazon’s ancient complex of ‘lost cities’ flourished for a thousand years: ©Marek Stefunko/EyeEm/Getty Images
Why We Explore: ©Mike Brown/Fotolia

The Stuff of Consumer Culture

Are We Genetically Inclined To Be Materialistic?: Photodisc/Getty Images
Buying begets buying: how stuff has consumed the average American’s life: ©Comstock/Getty Images
1950’s Car Culture: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Here’s How Streaming Music is Killing the Planet: Liquidlibrary/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Why Do We Buy What We Buy?: ©Dragon Images/Shutterstock
Stuff: If That’s What You Wanted: ©PaulPaladin/iStockphoto.com/Getty Images
Retail Therapy: Does It Help?: ©Alamy
5 Ways “Tech Addiction” Is Changing Human Behaviour: ©Steve Debenport/iStockphoto.com
Consumers want a climate label for food, research shows: ©Spauln/E+/Getty Images
‘We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things’: ©Stoked/Jupiterimages/Media Bakery
How Money Is Made: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Technology firms explore ‘second screen’ opportunity: ©sturti/E+/Getty Images
Too Consumed to Ingest the world around us?: ©Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock
Fall Seed Saving Tips: ©goir/Fotolia
The Rise of the Zombie Mall: ©pryzmat/Shutterstock
How to Stop Discarded Face Masks from Polluting the Planet: ©Photodisc/Getty Images
Brain Scans of Hoarders Reveal Why They Never De-Clutter: ©Corbis
5 Ways Consumers Can Be More Socially Conscious in Shopping: Photodisc/Getty Images
How Wearable Tech Is Creeping into the Beauty Industry: ©Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock
Some Reflections on ‘My Year of No Shopping’: ©Getty Images

Guided by a Cause

Study: Social Media Helps with Teenage Empathy, Awareness: ©kurhan/Shutterstock
Social Change: ©maxstockphoto/Shutterstock
The 10 Most Generous Nations in the World: ©Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock
The Student Walkout Against Gun Violence, in Photos: ©Zoe/Fotolia
Meet the COVID-19 frontline heroes: Getty Images Royalty Free
6 Black Heroes of the Civil War: ©Phillip Reeves/Dreamstime
Jack Andraka, the Teen Prodigy of Pancreatic Cancer: Photodisc/Getty Images
Antioch Teens Raising Money to Help Orphans in Ethiopia: ©Bartosz Hadyniak/Vetta/Getty Images
Believe: ©Corbis
Biblioburro: The amazing donkey libraries of Colombia: Purestock/Getty Images
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life and work propelled women’s equality front and center: ©FSO/Alamy
26 Types of Activism To Know (Plus Examples): ©wellphoto/Shutterstock
Peace First Prize Rewards Youth Who Are Making a Difference: Getty Images
Selma to Montgomery March: ©Ilene MacDonald/Alamy
Why I Don’t Use A Smart Phone: ©D. Hurst/Alamy
How Misty Copeland is empowering at-risk youth through dance: ©demidoff/Shutterstock
‘Speak up!’ — ‘Sesame Street’ tackles racism in TV special: ©Corbis
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America: Letter From the President: ©SnowWhiteimages/Shutterstock
How this guide dog helps one blind triathlete chase her Paralympic dream: ©Shutterstock
7 Scientific Facts About the Benefit of Doing Good: ©sezer66/Shutterstock

Grade 8


Culture and Belonging ©iStockphoto.com

Soccer Helping Young Refugees Find Footing in U.S.: Image 100/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
‘Beyond Bollywood’: Inside the Smithsonian’s exhibition on Indian Americans: Hill Street Studios/Getty Images
Fighting Fiction with Facts: The BCN Anti-Rumor Campaign: Comstock/Getty Images
UChicago research finds location plays critical role in assimilation of U.S. immigrants: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
‘There are no words’: As coronavirus kills Indigenous elders, endangered languages face extinction: Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
About the Author: Kao Kalia Yang: ©thaikrit/Shutterstock
How Culture Shapes Emotions: ©George Rudy/Shutterstock
What Americans Can Learn From Other Food Cultures: ©Shutterstock
My Identity as Haitian-American Is an Asset, Not a Deficit: ©Corbis
December Holidays around the World: Liquidlibrary/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Kids Interpreting Medical Information to Parents: ©Rob Lewine/Getty Images
Yiddish Culture Takes Center Stage: ©aerogondo2/Shutterstock
Adapting to a New Culture: ©Payless Images, Inc./Alamy
Undocumented journalist describes immigrant experience, American dream: Comstock/Getty Images
‘Low and Slow’: Latino lowriders cruise for community: ©harlequin9/Fotolia
Newest Immigrants Assimilating as Fast as Previous Ones, Report Says: ©Paul Brennan/Shutterstock
What if everyone on Earth spoke the same language?: Comstock/Getty Images
About Our Antagonisms: ©bikeriderlondon/Shutterstock
Origins and Destinations of the World’s Migrants, 1990-2017: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Mardi Gras: ©benedek/iStock/Getty Images

The Thrill of Horror Rubberball/Getty Images

Why Do Some Brains Enjoy Fear?: ©Jacob Ammentorp Lund/Alamy
Why we love ghost stories: Photodisc/Getty Images
5 reasons why scary books are better than scary movies: ©Vit Kovalcik/Shutterstock
How to write a horror story: 6 terrific tips: ©StaceStock/Shutterstock
Victoria siblings explore chilling creatures from Indigenous stories in horror-themed podcast: ©fizkes/Adobe Stock
People Are Increasingly Worried A.I. Will Make Daily Life Worse: ©Tatiana Shepeleva/Shutterstock
Laughter in the Dark: A History of Dark Rides: ©Hurst Photo/Shutterstock
The Psychology of a Horror Movie Fan: ©Crazytang/Getty Images/iStockphoto.com
One third of parents avoid reading children scary stories, study finds: ©Renphoto/iStockphoto.com
8 books that wouldn’t exist without Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’: ©Skylines/Shutterstock
An A.I. Bot Named “Shelley” Is Generating Spooky Stories on Twitter: ©ImYanis/Shutterstock
This Is Your Body on Fear: ©Simon Potter/Cultura/Getty Images
Why Do People Love Horror Movies? They Enjoy Being Scared: ©Corbis
A Legacy of Horror Films: ©vhpfoto/Shutterstock
Horror Movies: Why People Love Them: ©jwblinn/iStockphoto.com
Fiction Podcasts Are Finally a Thing! Thank You, Sci-Fi and Horror: ©alwyncooper/iStockphoto.com
Why do we like to be scared?: ©MANDY GODBEHEAR/Shutterstock
Searching the Brain for the Roots of Fear: ©Redmond O. Durrell/Alamy
Poe Museum: Library of Congress
Pop Culture’s Undying Edgar Allan Poe Obsession: Jupiterimages/Getty Images

The Move Toward Freedom Richard Nowitz/National Geographic/Getty Images

Slave Rebellions: A Timeline: Library of Congress
What Does It Mean for America to Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill?: ©Photos.com/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War: Dynamic Graphics/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Frederick Douglass On How Slave Owners Used Food As A Weapon Of Control: ©stockelements/Shutterstock
The Most “Realistic” Civil War Novel Was Written Three Decades After It Ended: ©steve estvanik/Shutterstock
What Really Destroyed Tulsa’s Black Wall Street: ©MCCAIG/E+/Getty Images
What the Emancipation Proclamation Didn’t Do: ©Everett Historical/Shutterstock
Maryland lawmakers asked to revisit vote for slavery: ©webking/iStockphoto.com
How the Civil War Changed Modern Medicine: ©Corbis
African American Spirituals: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Activist Ida B. Wells Gets Pulitzer Prize 137 Years After Refusing to Exit ‘Whites Only’ Train: ©Hi-Story/Alamy
The shortest American Civil War summary you’ll ever read: ©Everett Historical/Shutterstock
Solving a Civil War Photograph Mystery: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Lincoln-Douglas Debates: ©Gary Blakeley/Fotolia
In the 1800s, a freed slave built bridges across the South: ©Gene Ahrens/Alamy
Born-Into-Slavery Narratives Discovered in Newspaper: ©Library of Congress
The Black sorority that faced racism in the suffrage movement but refused to walk away: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Huston middle-schoolers get tangible Civil War lesson: ©memedozaslanphotography/Shutterstock
Civil Rights Movement: ©Luiz Felipe Castro/Flickr/Getty Images
John Brown’s Day of Reckoning: ©Corbis

Approaching Adulthood Jupiterimages/Getty Images

How Volunteer Work for Teens Works: ©mangostock/Shutterstock
Why Air Force Cadets Ought to Study Philosophy: Photodisc/Getty Images
Teaching Teenagers to Cope With Social Stress: ©godfer/Fotolia
Teens struggle to combat conformity: Creatas/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Disability activist shares biggest tips for young people who want to make a difference: ©wellphoto/Shutterstock
When Does Adulthood Really Begin?: ©D. Hurst/Alamy
10 Supreme Court Cases Every Teen Should Know: Image Ideas/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Teen Night Owls Struggle To Learn And Control Emotions At School: ©Dean Drobot/Shutterstock
The distracted teenage brain: ©slobo/E+/Getty Images
Teens around the world are lonelier than a decade ago. The reason may be smartphones.: ©fizkes/Shutterstock
Why teenagers take risks: ©djgis/Shutterstock
When I Grow Up: © jon challicom / Alamy
6 takeaways about teen friendships in the digital age: ©ra2studio/Shutterstock
Does Your Mother Still Do Your Laundry?: ©sirtravelalot/Shutterstock
Black interns: ‘You just need to give us a chance’: ©Flamingo Images/Shutterstock
Psychology says you need to achieve these 3 goals to become an adult: Hemera Technologies/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Jon Savage on his documentary “Teenage”: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake, Stanford Study Finds: ©Kent Knudson/PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
Should the Voting Age be 16?:
Young, Black Native activists say it’s time to appreciate Indigenous diversity: ©funky-data/iStock/Getty Images

Anne Frank’s Legacy ©Shutterstock

‘All humanity was taken away from us’: Anne Frank’s stepsister recalls Holocaust, her time at Auschwitz: ©Jonathan Noden-Wilkinson/Shutterstock
Anne Frank at 85: What would she have become had she lived?: ©Getty Images
Two Perspectives: Description of the people in hiding: ©artkamalov/Shutterstock
A Holocaust Survivor’s Digital Doppelgänger: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Who Betrayed Anne Frank?:
Russian strike kills 96-year-old Holocaust survivor in Ukraine: ©Corbis
Teaching About Anne Frank from a Kid’s-Eye View: ©Hero Images/Corbis
My Life in France, 1939 – 1945: ©Victoria Smith/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark’s Jews Escaped the Nazis—review: ©Teri Dixon/Photodisc/Getty Images
Poland’s president says he will sign controversial Holocaust bill: ©INSADCO Photography/Alamy
This is what Anne Frank’s Arrest Looked Like: ©feije/iStock/Getty Images
The Holocaust survivor who fell in love with her American liberator: ©LiliGraphie/Shutterstock
Holocaust Survivor: Without Music, “I Wouldn’t Be Alive”: ©Thinkstock/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Otto Frank talks about Anne’s diary: ©pio3/Shutterstock
German Propaganda Archive: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
This POW kept a secret diary that showed daily life in a concentration camp: ©Sunil Singh/Fotolia
Public Understanding of the Holocaust, from WWII to Today: ©EdBockStock/Shutterstock
Andrée Geulen, rescuer of Jewish children in Belgium, dies at 100: ©wwing/iStockphoto.com
Anne Frank’s Amsterdam: Photodisc/Getty Images
Deep Survival: Anne Frank’s Extraordinary Act of Survival: Jupiterimages/Getty Images

The Value of Work ©Shutterstock

3 Awesome Teen Entrepreneurs Who Will Put You to Shame: ©Push Pictures/Somos Images/Corbis
Why Taking Breaks Will Help You Get More Work Done: ©Aaron Amat/Shutterstock
Today’s Teens: More Materialistic, Less Willing to Work: Purestock/Getty Images
How to Develop a Work Ethic and Be an Amazing Employee: ©Beau Lark/Fancy/Corbis
Why we need to praise kids’ teachability, not just their ability.: ©Hill Street Studios/Blend Images/Getty Images
16-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Defeats World Champion Magnus Carlsen: ©Comstock/Getty Images
African-American Girl Blazing a Trail Through Chess: ©Corbis
Local girl collects shoes, makes a world of difference: Comstock/Getty Images
Debunking The Millennials’ Work Ethic “Problem”: Brand X Pictures/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Migrant Farm Workers: Our Nation’s Invisible Population: ©Corbis
John Legend: Success Through Effort: ©Scott Chernis/Alamy
Wildlife and celebrity photographer reveals secrets behind most iconic shots: ©rdonar/Shutterstock
Sorry, Strivers: Talent Matters: ©Svemir/iStockphoto.com
Cool Jobs (That Pay!): Comstock/Getty Images
This 14-year-old turned down a $30M buyout offer: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Professional Students: Benefits and Risks of Working While in High School: ©Steve Debenport/iStock/Getty Images
Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American woman, is praised as key scientist behind COVID-19 vaccine: ©jarun011/iStock/Getty Images
Malorie Blackman’s ‘dynamic imaginary worlds’ win her the PEN Pinter prize: ©pelfophoto/Shutterstock
Cool Jobs: Sports Science: ©Exactostock/SuperStock
From World’s Fair to Maker Faire: Isaac Asimov: ©Liz Boyd/Alamy

Grade 9


Finding Common Ground Stockbyte/Getty Images

America’s Tipping Point: Most of U.S. Now Multicultural, Says Group: ©Comstock/Getty Images
How do you fix a polarized D.C.? Here are three ways.: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
Playing Nicely with Others: Why Schools Teach Social Emotional Learning: Bananastock/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Ad of the Day: Flyers Reach Across the Aisle: ©Corbis
Searching for the real ‘Gullah Gullah Island’: ©Emir Simsek/Fotolia
Searching for Common Ground in Angry Times: ©Comstock/Getty Images
Our choices may be making us more individualistic: ©Eisenhans/Fotolia
Students Take Hijab Challenge: ©Weronica Ankarörn/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Reel Life: The mesmerizing saga of “56 Up”: ©Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
12 issues almost all Americans agree on: ©Corbis
Forgiving to Keep a Lifelong Friend: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
How do children choose a best friend?: ©Estrada Anton/Shutterstock
In Search of America: One Nation, Indivisible: Joseph De Sciose/Pixtal/Age Fotostock
Our war-torn world needs a new mediating body to resolve conflicts: ©iurii/Shutterstock
Gypsies, Roma, Travellers: An Animated History: ©Corbis
Why not everyone feels the same emotions from the same music: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
Restoring Trust and Improving Police and Community Relations: ©aijohn784/iStock/Getty Images
Attacks against Asian Americans are on the rise. Here’s what you can do: ©leolintang/Shutterstock
Doris Kearns Goodwin On Lincoln And His “Team Of Rivals”: ©Tim Mainiero/Shutterstock
Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum: ©Corbis

The Struggle for Freedom ©Shutterstock

What Democracy Means To Us Today: ©Blend Images - Hill Street Studios/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
Reverently and Defiantly, Czechs Honor Velvet Revolution’s Anniversary: Stockbyte/Getty Images
Fannie Lou Hamer: ©Black Star/Alamy
U.S. Soccer President ‘surprised’ by women’s team’s gender discrimination suit: ©Enrico Calderoni/Getty Images
Equality Act Would Extend Civil Rights Laws To LGBTQ People Throughout U.S.: ©railwayfx/Adobe Stock
Everyday people were civil rights heroes, too. This is the story of one town’s fight: ©Everett Collection Historical/Alamy
What a Novel Can Say About the Egyptian Revolution: ©Jonathan Rashad/Flickr/Getty Images
World Press Freedom Index: ©Bill Fritsch/Brand X Pictures/Age Fotostock
Freedom in the World 2017: Iran: Stockbyte/Getty Images
20 Historic Moments in the Fight for LGBTQ Rights:
The Color of Justice: ©Corbis
UN Says AI Poses ‘Serious Risk’ For Human Rights: ©Mykola/Adobe Stock
Apartheid’s roots: The Natives Lands Act: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Woman with Down syndrome prevails over parents in guardianship case: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
An Animated Adventure, Drawn from Life: ©James Steidl/Hemera/Getty Images
American slavery: Separating fact from myth: ©Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Cherokee Nation Says It Is Owed a Representative in Congress: ©Erika Cross/Shutterstock
A Protest Moment I’ll Never Forget: ©ertyo5/iStock/Getty Images
Online social change: Easy to organize, hard to win: ©ra2studio/Shutterstock
Few Artifacts of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Still Exist. These Iron Blocks Help Tell That Gut-Wrenching Story: ©Photos.com/Jupiterimages/Getty Images

The Bonds Between Us Photodisc/Getty Images

The Joy of Food: ©Wavebreakmedia Ltd/Wavebreak Media/Getty Images
Dogs Recognize Familiar Faces from Images: ©Dave Stamboulis/Alamy
Children’s author Eric Carle reconnects with lost Syracuse friend after 82 years: Photodisc/Getty Images
Thanks, Robot! Humans Are Showing Kindness with Their AI Helpers: ©LindaMarieB/iStockphoto.com
Melissa Malzkuhn on the power of connecting through language: ©Creativa Images/Shutterstock
National Hispanic Heritage Month: 157603965.jpg
Play Me, I’m Yours: Photos.com/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Orphans’ Lonely Beginnings Reveal How Parents Shape A Child’s Brain: Comstock/Getty Images
Lanterns That Carried Prayers: ©Corbis
Loneliest Human: ©Corbis
Why you need acquaintances, not just BFFs: ©PeopleImages/E+/Getty Images
Marvel’s “Shang-Chi” jabs, flips Asian American film cliches: ©Corbis
Urban Farms Herald Green City ‘Revolution’: Compassionate Eye Foundation/Steven Errico/Digital Vision/Getty Images
Dogs at War: Smoky, a Healing Presence for Wounded WWII Soldiers: ©Emery Way/Flickr/Getty Images
How the Five Web Literacies Are Becoming Essential Survival Skills: ©KidStock/Blend Images/Getty Images
Watch a Rescued Baby Wombat Bond with his Caretaker: ©covenant/Shutterstock
Why People are Using the Term ‘Latinx’: ©pathdoc/Shutterstock
Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos): ©All-a-Shutter/Alamy
Dolphins Have “Names,” Respond When Called: Photodisc/Getty Images
To Gossip or Not to Gossip: That Is the Question: ©Christopher Futcher/E+/Getty Images

Sweet Sorrow Photodisc/Getty Images

Sweet Sorrow: Image Source/Getty Images
Shakespeare in Love: Creatas/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Why we can never recover from first love: Image 100/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
4 Bloody Family Feuds in American History: ©Corbis
First Collection of Shakespeare’s Plays Sells for Almost $10 Million: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
A Conversation with Sir Patrick Stewart: Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company: Thinkstock Images/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
History of Valentine’s Day: Photodisc/Getty Images
When Your Parents Disapprove of Your Partner: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
A better way to talk about love: ©Corbis
Re-imagining Shakespeare’s plays in virtual reality game: Photodisc/Getty Images
9 Virtual Tours of Shakespearean Spots: ©Steve Gorton/Getty Images
You Can Love at First Sight: Scientists Discover Brain Region Responsible for Instant Attraction: Getty Images
Can these 36 questions make you fall in love with anyone?: ©Corbis
10 Rare Salvador Dali Illustrations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: ©Corbis
How to Recover from Romantic Heartbreak: ©DimaBerlin/Shutterstock
What Shakespeare can — and can’t — teach us about Covid-19: ©GL Archive/Alamy
Theater Experience in Shakespeare’s Lifetime: ©joshblake/iStockphoto.com
In Search of Shakespeare: Timeline: ©Comstock Images/Getty Images
The Hatfield & McCoy Feud: ©SREEDHAR YEDLAPATI/Fotolia

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Shark Attack Survivors Unite to Save Sharks: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Corrie ten Boom: ©nuttakit/Shutterstock
It Helps to Like Your Neighbor During a Natural Disaster: Photodisc/Getty Images
Maternal deaths fall across globe but rise in U.S., doubling in Texas: ©Brooklyn Production/Corbis
Woman describes what it was like to be the only survivor of a flight obliterated by a thunderstorm: ©REAL TIME IT02794870960/Shutterstock
How Search-and-Rescue Dogs Work: ©Corbis
Titanic’s 100th Anniversary: 6 Survivor Stories: Glowimages/Getty Images
Helping Fellow Plane Crash Survivors Has Changed My Life: Photodisc/Getty Images
Modern Humans Retain Caveman’s Survival Instincts: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Cancer Drug Proves to Be Effective Against Multiple Tumors: ©Corbis
Sri Lankan Catholics mark 1 week since Easter Sunday attacks: Stockbyte/Getty Images
Monsoon Season: ©Dr-Strangelove/iStock/Getty Images
Stairwell A: The Only Way Out: Photodisc/Getty Images
‘Life is beautiful’: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Possibilian: Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
A psychologist explains the limits of human compassion: ©Valter Dias/Shutterstock
WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo a global health emergency:
In pictures: Hurricane Ida devastates Gulf Coast: ©ParkerDeen/E+/Getty Images
Teen Refugee: Prince Charming Is Dead: Stockbyte/Getty Images
Sherpas Take Steep Risks for Life-Changing Pay: ©granitepeaker/Fotolia

Heroes and Quests ©Corbis

Odysseus’ Journey: MedioImages/Getty Images
The Scott Expedition: ©Corbis
Slow boat to Timbuktu: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Wonder Woman and the Importance of the Female Hero Moment: ©Fuse/Getty Images
Girl Scouts Take on Cyber Security: ©whiteMocca/Shutterstock
Matthew Henson, the Arctic Explorer Who Stood on Top of the World: ©Michel Cecconi/Shutterstock
Land of Odysseus: Stockbyte/Getty Images
‘Shadow Divers’: True Story of Solving WWII Mystery: Liquidlibrary/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
The Psychology Behind Superhero Origin Stories: ©Radius Images/Corbis
At 81, Mary Oliver shares her spiritual journey in ‘Upstream: Selected Essays’: ©Corbis
MIT ‘hackers’ turn Great Dome into Captain America’s shield: ©Diego Grandi/Dreamstime
Biography of Tenzing Norgay, First Man to Conquer Mt Everest: ©isoft/iStockphoto.com
The Coldest Journey: ©Corbis
Mars One: Photodisc/Getty Images
Ocean Explorer: Technology: Michael Saul/Brand X/Corbis
8 Novels Inspired by the Odyssey: ©Hill Street Studios/Blend Images/Corbis
This classic formula can show you how to live more heroically:
ICON 3D Prints the First Simulated Mars Surface Habitat for NASA: 63749440.jpg
Discovery Rekindles Wish for a Journey to the Stars: NASA
What makes a hero? – Matthew Winkler: ©Tatiana Popova/Shutterstock

Grade 10


Ourselves and Others Image Source/Getty Images

‘Going with the Crowd’ Causes Us to Make the Wrong Choices: ©Creativemarc/Shutterstock
What Does Free Speech Mean?: ©Aaron Amat/Shutterstock
Three Clergymen, Three Faiths, One Relationship: Corbis
Strangers Spot People with Compassionate Genes in Seconds: ©Don Couch/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
A Syrian Refugee’s Story: ©John Langford/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
How do children choose a best friend?: ©Estrada Anton/Shutterstock
Agreeing to Disagree: © Victoria Smith/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Photodisc/Getty Images
What happens in the brain when you learn a language?: Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Blend Images/Alamy
Human Flow: ©Ken Usami/Photodisc/Getty Images
At 16, Coco Gauff’s voice is already as strong as her serve: ©andresr/E+/Getty Images
Attacks against Asian Americans are on the rise. Here’s what you can do: ©leolintang/Shutterstock
Our choices may be making us more individualistic: ©Eisenhans/Fotolia
CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character: Photodisc/Getty Images
Conflict Resolution Skills: ©Monica Lau/Photodisc/Getty Images
Stuck in an awkwardness vortex? Here’s how to embrace the cringe: ©Dennis Fagan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Revisiting Ursula K. Le Guin’s Novella About Interplanetary Racism: ©Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock
How Conformity Can Be Good and Bad for Society: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
Flag Burning and Free Speech: Comstock/Getty Images
In-groups, out-groups, and the psychology of crowds: ©Corbis

The Natural World Carson Ganci/Design Pics Inc/Alamy

There have been five mass extinctions in Earth’s history. Now we’re facing a sixth.: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nature: The Master Medicine-Maker: ©Keith Brofsky/Photodisc/Getty Images
Family Farmers Fighting Climate Change: ©Corbis
Finding connections to nature in cities is key to healthy urban living: ©Corbis
The Benefits of Digging in the Dirt: Image Source/Getty Images
How Plants Cope with the Desert Climate: ©Jill Stephenson/Alamy
Losing the Dark: ©Victoria Smith/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Why You Should ‘Rewild’ Your Diet to Help Your Microbiome: ©Berit Kessler/Shutterstock
Coral reefs provide flood protection worth $1.8 billion every year— it’s time to protect them: ©Rafael Ben-Ari/Fotolia
How Dogs and Humans Evolved and Migrated in Tandem: ©Lightfieldstudiosprod/Dreamstime
Fake-Nature: © HMCo.
Microbes at Work: Photodisc/Getty Images
Wildlife thriving around Chernobyl nuclear plant despite radiation: ©Corbis
How Green Buildings Could Save Our Cities: ©Alison Hancock/Shutterstock
Scientists work out way to make Mars surface fit for farming: ©Stocktrek Images/Getty Images
What Forest Floor Playgrounds Teach Us About Kids and Germs: ©Hurst Photo/Shutterstock
How Colony Collapse Disorder Works: ©Irochka/Fotolia
Being outside can improve memory, fight depression, and lower blood pressure — here are 12 science-backed reasons to spend more time outdoors: ©Blazej Lyjak/Shutterstock
The True Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Never Truly Ate the South: ©Black Rock Digital/Shutterstock
Signs of Life: ©T. O'Keefe/PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images

Responses to Change ©Fotolia

Bioluminescent Art: Beautiful Bacteria Glow in the Dark: Cre8tive Studios/Alamy
Gaming Can Make a Better World: ©BananaStock/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
100 years ago, ‘The Rite of Spring’ incited a riot in a Paris theater: ©oleg66/iStockphoto.com
Who Gets to Claim Kafka?: ©Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock
What You Need To Know As The First COVID-19 Vaccine Heads Your Way: Liquidlibrary/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Extreme ‘Rogue Wave’ in The North Pacific Confirmed as Most Extreme on Record: Comstock/Getty Images
Frog Fable Brought to Boil: ©D. Hurst/Alamy
How to Survive a Disaster: ©Claudiad/iStockphoto.com
Earth’s Magnetic Field Flip Could Happen Sooner Than Expected:
With Climate Change No Longer in the Future, Adaptation Speeds Up: ©Linda Bucklin/Shutterstock
Dogs ease pandemic isolation for nursing home residents: ©Corbis
Sinkholes: When the Earth Opens Up: ©maiteali/iStockphoto.com
Hour of Horror Forever Alters American Lives: Image Source/Getty Images
Captured: The moment photosynthesis changed the world: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ Turns 100: ©PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
Shareable quotes from experts about the impact of digital life: ©eclipse_images/iStock/Getty Images
What to do if you’re in the middle of a power outage: ©Pixsooz/Shutterstock
10,000 Year Clock: Photodisc/Getty Images
Stephen Hawking: Biography: ©plefevre/iStockphoto.com
The ‘America effect’: How immigrants fall crazy in love: ©moodboard/SuperStock

How We See Things ©Corbis

Oliver Sacks Shares Tales of Musical Hallucinations: ©Leigh Prather/Shutterstock
What Is Infrared?: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Ada Lovelace, the First Tech Visionary: ©Jonathan Lim Yong Hian/Fotolia
The Evolution of the Human Eye: ©Nick Koudis/Photodisc/Getty Images
Stay-at-home order protesters represent a minority view: ©MmeEmil/E+/Getty Images
The Most Amazing Optical Illusions (and How They Work): ©fotoadrenalina/iStockphoto.com
Emily Dickinson’s mystifying in-sight: ©Tatiana Makotra/Shutterstock
Overexposed? Camera Phones Could Be Washing Out Our Memories: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
Mathphilic: ©Fernando Batista/iStockphoto.com
What Is Schizophrenia?: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
America’s digital divide: Why Internet access should be a basic human right: ©alexmillos/Shutterstock
Memory contaminates perception: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Eureka!: Huntstock/Getty Images
Overview: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
Einstein’s gravitational waves ‘seen’ from black holes: Photodisc/Getty Images
Selfie face distortion is driving people to get nose jobs: ©Maridav/Shutterstock
How the news changes the way we think and behave: ©ColorBlind Images/Blend Images/Getty Images
‘Evil Genius’: Mind-Bending Illusion Built Into Skyline Confuses Internet: ©Don Couch/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Optical Illusions: When Your Brain Can’t Believe Your Eyes: ©Atypeek Design/Shutterstock
‘Blindness’ May Rapidly Enhance Other Senses: BananaStock/Jupiterimages/Getty Images

Absolute Power Photodisc/Getty Images

This Is Your Brain on Shakespeare: ©Andrea Danti/Fotolia
Genghis Khan: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Take It from ‘Hamilton’: Why Unyielding Ambition Is a Blessing and a Curse: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
How Power Corrupts Us: ©Keith Brofsky/Eyewire/Getty Images
How to read Shakespeare for pleasure: ©Steve Vidler/Alamy
A Conversation with Sir Patrick Stewart: Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
The Gunpowder Plot: Photodisc/Getty Images
Dunsinane: An Interview with the Playwright: ©JUPITERIMAGES/Comstock Images/Alamy
Eight Current Dictators as of 2018: ©JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock
The Time Shakespeare Caused a Riot in New York City: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Shakespeare’s Sources for Macbeth: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Influence of Machiavelli on Shakespeare: Eyewire/Getty Images
Why Washington Relinquished His Power, and Why He Returned: ©Joseph Sohm-Visions of America/Digital Vision/Getty Images
More than 12 years after Hurricane Katrina, scientists are learning what makes some survivors more resilient than others: ©briannolan/iStockphoto.com
Helicopters are ruining Shakespeare in the Park: ©ID1974/Shutterstock
The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders: William J. Clinton Presidential Library
Is Too Much Ambition Making You Miserable?: Image 100/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Fair is foul and foul is fair: Macbeth in Tunisia: ©Lotharingia/Fotolia
A Dictatorship Is Rising in My Country, Again: ©Globe Turner, LLC/Getty Images
Black Theater Artists Are Helping Shakespeare Speak To More Diverse Audiences: ©coward_lion/Adobe Stock

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Nelson Mandela’s ‘walk to freedom’ in 1990 after his release from prison: Comstock/Getty Images
How a book club is helping to keep ex-offenders from going back to jail: Photodisc/Getty Images
Ben Franklin’s Famous ‘Liberty, Safety’ Quote Lost Its Context In 21st Century: ©joecicak/E+/Getty Images
After 39 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment, Ricky Jackson Is Finally Free: ©C Squared Studios/Photodisc/Getty Images
A Protest Moment I’ll Never Forget: ©ertyo5/iStock/Getty Images
Celebrating the human rights wins of 2023: ©Niall Carson/PA Images/Alamy
The challenge of the past: ©John Langford/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Saudi Arabia women defy authorities over female driving ban: ©Juanmonino/E+/Getty Images
Meeting in the Middle: Youth Activism and Formal Politics in Egypt: ©Fotolia
Hong Kong’s huge protests, explained: Stockbyte/Getty Images
Nelson Mandela: ‘Synonymous with the fight for justice and equality’: ©jeremy sutton-hibbert/Alamy
Looking Ahead to a Pivotal Year for Global Freedom: ©jkbowers/iStockphoto.com
The Angry Martin Luther King:
Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests: ©Jonathan Rashad/Flickr/Getty Images
Barrett Brown Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison in Connection with Stratfor Hack: ©eldeiv/Shutterstock
The Kurdish Project: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Protests in Hong Kong Continue, Remain Peaceful Throughout the Weekend: Photodisc/Getty Images
Remembering the most important civil rights hero most Americans have never heard of: Courtesy of the Library of Congress
The night I helped my mother escape North Korea: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
A dangerous idea offers hope for girls in Afghanistan: Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Blend Images/Getty Images

Grade 11


Coming to America ©Visions of America, LLC/Alamy

Destination America: Comstock/Getty Images
U.S. Immigration Before 1965: Comstock/Getty Images
Remarks by the First Lady at City College of New York Commencement: ©F. Schussler/PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
Augmented Reality Recreates A New York City Not Seen for Centuries: ©Scenics of America/PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
Fort Mose: America’s Black Colonial Fortress of Freedom: ©Stocktrek Images/Getty Images
U.S. broadens immigration program for Haitian migrants, citing humanitarian crisis: ©dk_photos/iStock/Getty Images
Seeing Opportunity In A Question: “Where Are You Really From?”: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
‘One Nation with News for All’: Newseum looks at Ethnic media in America: ©John Langford/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Hernán Cortés Biography: Ocean/Corbis
BORDERLINE: ©stellalevi/iStock/Getty Images
5 Powerful and Influential Native American Women:  ©Michelle Gilders/Alamy
‘Queen of Salsa’ has her own US quarter: Comstock/Getty Images
Navajos share stories about their past, the world: Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
U.S. Immigration Since 1965: ©Adam Hester/Photographer's Choice RF/Getty Images
How America became Italian: ©Hola Images/Getty Images
CONQUISTADORS: ©Constance McGuire/iStockphoto.com/Getty Images
How Immigrants Created America’s Mixtape: Stockbyte/Getty Images
3,000 migrants begin walk north from south Mexico: ©FeyginFoto/Shutterstock
America, The Startup: How European Settlers Launched The Most Entrepreneurial Economy In The World: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
My Day One: From the Streets of Lahore to the Heart of Texas: ©DK Dixon/Fotolia

Building a Democracy ©Karl Kost/Alamy

Abigail Adams, Founding Mother: Getty Images
Louisiana Purchase: ©traveler1116/iStockphoto.com
How the Louisiana Purchase Changed the World: ©Corbis
This Engraved Infographic of the Revolutionary War Is From 1871: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Music in the Revolutionary War: Stockbyte/Getty Images
Since American Revolution, women have played part on front lines: ©GL Archive/Alamy
Global Impact of the American Revolution: ©wong yu liang/Shutterstock
“Yankee Doodle” – Traditional: History of an American folk song: ©Milos Luzanin/Getty Images/iStockphoto.com
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: Eyewire/Getty Images
When Slavery Is Erased From Plantations: ©Kevin Burke/Corbis
What Alexander Hamilton’s Deep Connections To Slavery Reveal About The Need For Reparations Today: ©Bill Perry/Adobe Stock
Was the Last Battle of the American Revolution Fought in India? A Growing Number of Historians Think So: ©egd/Shutterstock
The Poisoning of King George III: ©Corbis
The Sharpened Quill: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
George Washington’s letter to Jewish community becomes musical call to action: ©Joseph Sohm-Visions of America/Digital Vision/Getty Images
6 Unsung Heroes of the American Revolution: ©VisionsofAmerica/Joe Soehm/Digital Vision/Getty Images
What Happened To British Loyalists After The Revolutionary War?: ©Everett Historical/Shutterstock
American Dogs: ©Igor Boldyrev/Shutterstock
Philip Freneau: ©Ellen Isaacs/Alamy
The Food that Fueled the American Revolution: JG Photography / Alamy

The Individual and Society Photodisc/Getty Images

Legacy Of Forced March Still Haunts Navajo Nation: ©welcomia/iStockphoto.com
How Technology Makes Us Better Social Beings: ©LWA/Dann Tardif/Blend Images/Getty Images
It’s Not the Economy: Why Unique Baby Names Are Trending Up: ©Corbis
Do We Code-Switch Our Laughter?: ©track5/E+/Getty Images
Many Black and Asian Americans Say They Have Experienced Discrimination Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak: ©Ivelin Radkov/Fotolia
Creating Common Ground in Tense, Difficult Situations: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
College move-in day: What would Henry David Thoreau say?: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
Thoreau’s Walden, Present at the Creation: ©Richard Nowitz/National Geographic/Getty Images
Edgar Allan Poe–Cosmologist?: ©Design Pics Inc./Alamy
Self Care 101: Where Did “Self-Care” Even Come From?: Digital Vision/Getty Images
Healing the political divide: ©Comstock Images/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Americans Are Getting Better at Cooperating With Strangers: ©Corbis
A Dual Mission: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
In The Adventures of Henry Thoreau, Michael Sims follows along the path of self-discovery that led to Walden Pond: ©Sam Dudgeon/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Happiness Is Not Only an Individual Matter: ©Shutterstock
Prelude to War: Manifest Destiny: Dynamic Graphics / Getty Images
Martin Luther King, Jr. found inspiration in Henry David Thoreau: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
For America to Succeed, We Must Find Common Ground: ©PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
The History of the American Flag: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
A Conversation With Native Americans on Race: Brand X Pictures/Getty Images

A New Birth of Freedom ©Corbis

HerStory: The Women Behind the 19th Amendment: ©Hill Street Studios/Blend Images/Getty Images
Baseball and the Civil War: Comstock/Getty Images
Top 10 Civil War Innovations: Slide Show: ©PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
The Tragic Roots of America’s Favorite Cherry: ©Alex Morgunov/EyeEm/Getty Images
Health Inequality Actually Is a “Black and White Issue”, Research Says: ©RubberBall Selects/Alamy
History Restored: The Untold Story of Black Civil War Soldiers: ©steve estvanik/Shutterstock
Annual event pays tribute to proclamation: Library of Congress
Congress Passes 13th Amendment, 150 Years Ago: ©Corbis
At American Art: A New Look on How Artists Recorded the Civil War: ©Corbis
The Hopeful, Heartbreaking Ads Placed by Formerly Enslaved People in Search of Lost Family: ©sutham/Shutterstock
Why Texas Still Celebrates Confederate Heroes Day: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Statue of Liberty: Goodshoot/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Professor Says He Has Solved a Mystery Over a Slave’s Novel: ©Dmitry Pichugin/Fotolia
Building the First Slavery Museum in America: ©MedioImages/Corbis
The Psychology of Freedom: ©Joseph Sohm-Visions of America/Digital Vision/Getty Images
Can these descendents of enslaved Africans save their unique culture?: ©Subir Basak/Flickr/Getty Images
‘Make Farmers Black Again’: African Americans Fight Discrimination To Own Farmland: ©digitalskillet/iStockphoto.com
6 Black Heroes of the Civil War: ©Phillip Reeves/Dreamstime
Yesteryears: In Civil War illustrator Waud’s hands, pen was as mighty as the sword: ©steheap/Fotolia
How Technology Shaped the Civil War: ©Corbis

An Age of Realism ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Greed Isn’t Good: Wealth Could Make People Unethical: ©Corbis
Casual Perfection: ©Philip Coblentz/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
The Decades That Invented the Future, Part 1: 1900-1910: Adam Gault/OJO Images/Getty Images
Mind Ablaze: ©Chaikovskiy Igor/Shutterstock
11 Outlandish Ways Aristocrats Displayed Their Wealth During the Gilded Age: ©Corbis
When Industrialists Got Rich, Architecture Went Wild: ©MedioImages/Getty Images
How Regulation Really Does Change Eating Behavior: Stockbyte/Getty Images
Nellie Bly Biography: ©Sergiy Serdyuk/Fotolia
Baseball in America, Part II: Gilded Bats and Balls: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Another Obama Decision Reversed? Now It’s About Food Safety.: ©Kent Knudson/PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
Burger King’s plant-based Whopper gets glowing review – from a meat lobbyist: ©Mark Wineman/Getty Images/iStockphoto.com
America’s Gilded Age led by ‘forgettable presidents’ in post-Civil War era: ©nojustice/iStockphoto.com
Women’s Athletics a Battle for Respect: ©Corbis
Muckraking Journalist Jacob Riis and Gilded Age New York City: ©kenny1/Shutterstock
Spanish American War: ©Laurence Mouton/PhotoAlto/Getty Images
Jack London’s mark on literature: ©Corbis
Before there was coronavirus, there was yellow fever. Fear of it once gripped D.C.: ©Oteera/Shutterstock
The Women ‘Computers’ Who Revolutionized Astronomy: ©Cardens Design/Shutterstock
The Challenges and Opportunites of 21st Century Muckracking: ©Dennis MacDonald/Alamy
Robber barons and silicon sultans: ©C. Borland/PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images

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Holocaust Museum: Exhibit probes Berlin’s historic Olympics of 1936: ©Corbis
Can Museums and Other Institutions Keep up With Digital Culture?: Goodshoot/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
How America’s Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future: ©fongfong/Shutterstock
A Deeper Look at the Politicians Who Passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964:
Did the United States put its own citizens in concentration camps during WWII?: ©Corbis
5 Biggest Risks of Sharing Your DNA with Consumer Genetic-Testing Companies: Getty Images
Journey to “The Crucible”: Thinkstock/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
The Football Genius of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Photodisc/Getty Images
Two steps forward, one step back: how World War II changed how we do human research: ©PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
How smart cities can create their own poetry – tech podcast: ©Devin_Pavel/Shutterstock
How Robots Are on the Front Lines in the Battle Against COVID-19: ©asharkyu/Shutterstock
What is the Future of Communication?: ©Mark Nazh/Shutterstock
World Without Borders: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
What’s next for the Internet of Things?: Photodisc/Getty Images
How Apple and IBM Marketed the First Personal Computers: Comstock/Getty Images
‘It makes me cry:’ Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam War wounds will never heal: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
The Great Staycation – How the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Push a Rapid Transition to Creative Domestic Holidays: Oliver Gerhard /Alamy
Hollywood Writers Reached an A.I. Deal That Will Rewrite History: ©Africa Studio/Shutterstock
What We Learned from 5 Million Books: ©Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock
Gordon Parks exhibit offers intimate glimpse into segregation-era life for African Americans: ©Clark Brennan/Alamy

Grade 12


Chasing Success ©Andres RodriguezFotolia

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
Grit: The power of passion and perseverance: ©Yuri Arcurs/Shutterstock
Moving Innovation in Education Forward: ©Goodluz/Shutterstock
Measuring Success in the Game of Life: ©Chones/Shutterstock
18 Under 18: Meet the Young Innovators Who Are Changing the World: ©Creativa Images/Shutterstock
Six Native Artists and Their Works Receive Major Recognition: ©Scenics of America/PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
Why Ambition Could Make You Rich, but Not Happy: ©Corbis
Finnish Education Chief: ‘We Created a School System Based on Equality’: Stockbyte/Getty Images
Luck and Skill Untangled: The Science of Success: ©Comstock Images/Getty Images
How Praise Became a Consolation Prize: ©Randy Faris/Corbis
Homeless teen who became valedictorian shares heartbreaking story during graduation speech: Creatas/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Shirley Raines, who brings beauty and hope to Skid Row, is CNN’s Hero of the Year: ©Shantell/iStockphoto.com
Why Are Superachievers So Successful?: Photos.com/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Eugene O’Neill Biography: ©Comstock/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Michael Lewis on Princeton Speech: I Aimed To Give Something Unexpected: ©Ellen Isaacs/Alamy
Nurture Counts as Much as Nature in Success:
With Senior Year in Disarray, Teens and Young Adults Feel Lost: ©Steve Debenport/E+/Getty Images
Jessie Diggins wins first-ever U.S. Olympic medal in cross-country sprint: Photodisc/Getty Images
Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
5 Ways to Find Career Ideas: Image Source/Getty Images

Gender Roles ©Fotolia

City Unveils Campaign to Improve Girls’ Self-Esteem: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
When Their Workday Ends, More Fathers Are Heading Into the Kitchen: ©Alamy
Manning up: Men may overcompensate when their masculinity is threatened: ©Keith Brofsky/Photodisc/Getty Images
Mary Wollstonecraft Biography: ©Image Source/Getty Images
Do countries with female leaders truly fare better with Covid-19?: ©ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy
Where the Women Rule: Comstock/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
For Modern Women, ‘Ladylike’ Means Strong And Sporty: ©JUPITERIMAGES/Creatas/Alamy
Why a 1920s legal move is responsible for the gender-segregated bathrooms we have today: ©Margoe Edwards/Shutterstock
A New Rating for TV and Movies Tries to Combat Gender Stereotypes: ©Ariel Skelley/Blend Images/Getty Images
At least 11 women have vied for U.S. vice president: ©JasonDoiy/iStock/Getty Images
From Boys to Men: How Mentoring Is Smoothing the Road to Adulthood: Creatas/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Mary Wollstonecraft Biography: Comstock/Getty Images
Esenam Nyador, Ghana’s female taxi driver: ©Corbis
Why was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?: ©MNStudio/Shutterstock
Coronavirus face masks: Why men are less likely to wear masks: ©ti-ja/E+/Getty Images
Proud to be a Mill Girl: Library of Congress
Could Paternity Leave Policies Close the Wage Gap?: ©Brooklyn Production/Corbis
Altering a robot’s gender and social roles may be a screen change away: ©Hero Images/Hero Images/Getty Images
What it Means to Build Without Bias: Questioning the Role of Gender in Architecture: © Andrej Ivosev/iStockphoto.com
How to be an ally to friends who’ve changed their pronouns: ©Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock

Voices of Protest National Archives

Tiananmen Square, Then and Now: ©Paul Merrett/Fotolia
‘Before India,’ A Young Gandhi Found His Calling In South Africa: ©Corbis
A Deep-Rooted History of Activism Stirs in College Football: ©Daniel Schweinert/Shutterstock
Gandhi: Surprising Facts on His Life and How His Legacy Lives on Today: ©Jim West/Alamy
Brazilian protesters rail against Bolsonaro as Amazon fires rage on: ©Stockbyte/Getty Images
Nelson Mandela: ‘Synonymous with the fight for justice and equality’: ©jeremy sutton-hibbert/Alamy
Online social change: Easy to organize, hard to win: ©ra2studio/Shutterstock
Why We Protest: ©Zoe/Fotolia
About Thoreau: ©Richard Nowitz/National Geographic/Getty Images
Fast-food workers strike, seeking $15 wage, political muscle: ©Mark Wineman/Getty Images/iStockphoto.com
How Jonathan Swift Attacked Fake News: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Stitch by stitch, a brief history of knitting and activism: ©Kostikova Natalia/Shutterstock
Remembering the most important civil rights hero most Americans have never heard of: Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Activists say the human rights movement is failing: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Olympic Athletes Who Took a Stand: Inspirestock/Corbis
Why Street Protests Don’t Work: ©Zoe/Fotolia
How social media affects protest movements: It’s complicated: ©Scanrail/Fotolia
On Protest Photography: ©Steve Debenport/E+/Getty Images
Do today’s global protests have anything in common?: ©Don Couch/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Fortnite’s Civil Rights Movement Inclusion Was Well-Intentioned But Messy: ©Leo Kanaka/Alamy

Seeking Justice, Seeking Peace Comstock/Jupiterimages/Getty Images

English spelling campaigners enlist the help of Hamlet: ©Peter Dazeley/Photodisc/Getty Images
Rwanda: Has reconciliation by legal means worked?: Stockbyte/Getty Images
What Justice Is: ©Orla/Shutterstock
Why You Should Be Reading Wislawa Szymborska: ©Radka Tesarova/Shutterstock
The Power of Forgiveness: Why Revenge Hurts You More: ©ericsphotography/iStock/Getty Images
New book celebrates the lost work of Shakespeare’s female editors: ©peepo/E+/Getty Images
Juan Rulfo: ©Emmanuel Lattes/Alamy
Ending Gang Retaliation With Text Messages: ©hillaryfox/iStockphoto.com
Peace Learning Center assists youth in conflict resolution: ©Eyecon Images/Alamy
My students call me the ‘peace teacher.’ My job has never felt more important.: Bananastock/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Fighting for Social Justice Sparks Ratings Surge for WNBA: ©PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
Taming of the crew: the bard meets Cunard in RSC cruise deal: ©Catalinademadrid/iStock/Getty Images
That Lady With the Scales Poses for Her Portraits: ©Getty Images
Interview: Alex Kotlowitz: ©Mario Savoia/Fotolia
Music in conflict: 24 iconic images: ©Chad Baker/Ryan McVay/Photodisc/Getty Images
Drought and conflict leave millions more hungry in 2017 – UN-backed report: ©Guido Dingemans/Alamy
First Collection of Shakespeare’s Plays Sells for Almost $10 Million: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
A Conversation with Sir Patrick Stewart: Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
Shakespeare in lockdown: Did he write King Lear in plague quarantine?: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Humans are wired for prejudice but that doesn’t have to be the end of the story: ©Chat Roberts/Corbis

Taking Risks ©Deddeda/Design Pics/Corbis

Challenger Disaster: courtesy of NASA
28 Years Ago, Challenger Shuttle Disaster Gave NASA Painful Lesson: ©Corbis
What makes space travel so dangerous?: courtesy of NASA
The Science—and Art—of Taking Risks: ©Karl Weatherly/Photodisc/Getty Images
Why Are We Addicted To Extreme Sports?: ©2happy/Shutterstock
9 Intrepid Women Explorers: ©Everett Collection/Shutterstock
Wilma Rudolph Biography: ©Forgiss/Fotolia
Sacrifice Amid the Ice: Facing Facts on the Scott Expedition: ©Raldi Somers/Fotolia
Should I let my child take more risks?: Image Source/Getty Images
Wild Things Next Door: Dangers of Exotic Pets: Photos.com/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Hurricane Harvey shows benefits, risks of turning to social media in disaster: ©PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
As Cars Get Safer, Drivers Take More Risks: ©Paul Guzzo/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
US women dominated medal count at Tokyo Olympics in ways they’ve never done before: © PA Images/Alamy
Seren Price, 5, to climb highest peak in north Africa: ©Kenneth Koh/Adventure Nomad/Flickr/Getty Images
Who Takes Risks?: ©Shutterstock
The Greatest Risks They Ever Took: Comstock/Getty Images
Why Success Makes Us Risk Averse: ©Goran Djukanovic/Shutterstock
5 wild risks taken by top entrepreneurs: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Kids (Who Use Tech) Seem to Be All Right: ©Ron Levine/Photographer's Choice RF/Getty Images
Teenage Aviator Aims to Be Youngest Woman to Circle the Globe Solo: ©Alexandr Shevchenko/Shutterstock

Finding Ourselves in Nature ©Corbis

Nature in Chinese Culture: ©Irina Afonskaya/Shutterstock
Survival Training, Ferret Style: Photodisc/Getty Images
Don’t Care About National Parks? The Park Service Needs You To: Getty Images Royalty Free
Women Writing About the Wild: 25 Essential Authors: ©Karen Grigoryan/Shutterstock
He went where no human had gone before. Our trash had already beaten him there.: ©Kip Evans/Alamy
New Study Analyzes Heavy Metal Dancing: ©1bestofphoto/Alamy
John Muir’s legacy questioned: ©David Davis/Fotolia
Politicians Should Make America Better for Parents by Thinking Swedish: ©Maxim Blinkov/Shutterstock
Today’s movement toward sustainable living echoes the not-so-distant past: ©Ted Foxx/Alamy
Fake animal news abounds on social media as coronavirus upends life: ©Aleksandar Todorovic/Shutterstock
Innovative Audubon Program Connects Elders with Alzheimer’s to the Outdoors While Creating Healthy Bird Habitats: ©Steve Byland/Fotolia
‘Wild’ film prompts surge in interest in Pacific Crest Trail: ©ImageSource/Age Fotostock
Environmental art is on the rise – with a little help from Leonardo DiCaprio: ©bikeriderlondon/Shutterstock
Nature: Closer Than It Seems: ©bo1982/iStockphoto.com/Getty Images
How Animals Shaped Our Modern World: ©Jim Corwin/Photographer's Choice RF/Getty Images
As We Seek Nature, We Wall It Out: ©Cristina Lichti/Flickr/Photolibrary
Faulkner of Oil Country: Rick Bass Talks New Novel: Comstock/Getty Images
Obama gets personal with Yosemite in speech, long hike: ©Tracy Barbutes/Design Pics/Corbis
We Are Wired To Be Outside: ©DAJ/amana images inc./Alamy
The pandemic stilled human activity. What did this ‘anthropause’ mean for wildlife?: ©melissaf84/Shutterstock

For Argument's Sake


Should the Government Have a Say in Our Diets?: Bananastock/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Is Technology Use Negatively Affecting Our Brains?: ©Schedivy Pictures Inc./Digital Vision/Getty Images
Do Professional Athletes Get Paid Too Much?: Photodisc/Getty Images
Have Social Media Sites Had a Negative Impact on Friendship?: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Is a College Education Worth the Cost?: Creatas/Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Should Women Serve in Military Combat Positions?: Getty Images Royalty Free
Do Law Enforcement Cameras Reduce Crime or Just Invade People’s Privacy?: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
Should Schools Require Students to Do Volunteer Work?: ©Alamy
Should Animals Be Used in Medical Research?: Michael Blann/Lifesize/Getty Images
Is Censorship Ever Appropriate?: Todd Davidson/Getty Images
Should Driver’s License Requirements Include School Success?: Brand X Pictures / Getty Images
Is It Fair to Hold Parents Responsible for Their Children’s Actions?: Jupiterimages/Getty Images
Should Our Justice System Focus on Punishing Criminals or Rehabilitating Them?: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
Should Businesses Be Allowed to Bar Teens?: ©Digital Vision/Getty Images
Should Native American Sports Mascots Be Banned?: ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Should the Federal Minimum Wage Be Increased?: Scott Rosen
Should Homework Be Banned?: ©SuperStock RF/SuperStock
Was Christopher Columbus a Hero or an Invader?: ©Pixtal/Age Fotostock
Does Energy Conservation Really Help?: ©Peter Gridley/Photographer's Choice RF/Getty Images
Should U.S. Students Be Required to Learn a Language Other than English?: ©auremar/Shutterstock