Character Education Story Briefs

What better way for a youth to explore issues of character and to find their ethical center than through stories? Here is a collection of inspirational and thought-provoking stories to fuel that search.

During his performing heyday, Beethoven was known as more than a brilliant pianist. His ability to improvise was legendary, and he often competed wit...

Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr. was commander of the 332nd Fighter Group, composed entirely of Tuskegee Airmen. The character of Colonel A.J. Bulla...

This broadside, from the 1860s and printed in Boston, was created to persuade people, especially young men, of the dangers of alcoholic beverages. It ...

This clip, from a 1968 Soviet-era adaptation of Brothers Karamazov (by Fydor Dostoevsky), depicts the scene (from the novel) in which Ivan Karamazov (...

On June 7, 1900, Carrie Nation walked into a Kansas saloon and starting smashing bottles of alcoholic drinks. Her first husband was addicted to alcoho...

Even before the Civil War was over, President Lincoln wanted an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which freed slaves throughout the country. The Amen...

Jason Anderson was the most senior of the eleven men who died in the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

When he was unable to run the entire race, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Derek Redmond did something even better.

Sully and Jeff Skiles had 208 seconds between a bird strike and a forced water landing on the Hudson. Both testified during the NTSB investigation.

Dr. Richard Feynman was always known for speaking his mind. When his work led him to a conclusion which seemed at odds with the conclusions (or desire...

Eddie Adams, a famous war photographer, received the Pulitzer Prize for this photograph which he took, in Saigon, during 1968.

U.S. astronaut Ed White was the first American to walk in space. He lifted the handle of his hatch cover, and left the safety of his spacecraft, on Ju...

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