This SDG will use U.S. foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's rise from thirteen disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower.

German forces began their invasion of France on 10 May 1940. Just over a month later, on 14 June, German soldiers entered Paris with almost no opposition.

In this SDG we will examine 7 plays of each of these two giants of American Theater, analyze in depth and compare their style.

In this SDG, we will examine the American political system focusing upon its public policies.

The 20th and 21st centuries have seen massive migration movements enabled by new transportation and communication technologies.

The history of energy challenges over the last four centuries tells the story of humanity itself over that time period.

The Republic is the first and arguably the greatest work on political philosophy.  (Alfred North Whitehead famously stated that all Western philosophy was a footnote to Plato.)

1672: Russia was a backwater country mired in traditional medieval customs. June 9 of the same year Peter, son of Tsar Alexei was born.

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially…