The subject of this book is of historical and contemporary importance. The canard that ours is an unsentimental and even anti-sentimental culture has been advanced by influential twentiethcentury opinion makers. In modern high culture, sentimentality is often thought of as vaguely embarrassing or is condemned for being in bad taste or for being insincere.

Character Education: The Adventures of the P.E. Gang

Grades: 3-5

The program is designed to assist you in developing these positive character traits: caring, responsibility, fairness, trustworthiness, respect and being cooperative. 

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CNN Student News - Sep 15, 2016 (with English subtitle)

With a major typhoon barreling toward southeast China, we're looking at how the terrain contributes to the danger. With the 2016 Paralympic Games taking place in Brazil, we're showing you how nothing could keep one competitor off the track. And with self-driving cars being tested in Pittsburgh, we're explaining what it's like to get behind the wheel but not actually steer it.

Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold, cosseted in silk, and flattered by courtiers. But in the end, they spent long nights in dark prison towers and were marched to the scaffold where they surrendered their heads to the executioner. And they are hardly alone in their undignified demises. Throughout history, royal women have had a distressing way of meeting bad ends–dying of starvation, being burned at the stake, or expiring in childbirth while trying desperately to produce an heir.

Settled in 1630 by English Puritans seeking religious freedom, Boston has always been a city prone to significant and monumental change. Even before it was incorporated as Boston, named after the town of Boston in Lincolnshire, England, the town's name was changed from Shawmut. From that time, Boston has evolved from being the original center of town government at the Old State House to becoming the financial center of New England in the twentieth century.