LNGenZ News for Kids: World

The small Eastern European country of Belarus is right in the middle of an international free speech controversy. While U.S. citizens can rely on the First Amendment to protect their rights to free speech and a free press, many countries… Read More

In the 1300s, the Italian scholar Petrarch came up with the term “dark ages” to describe European society between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance. He was comparing the “dark” centuries of society in… Read More

“Music begins when the possibilities of language end,” said Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, J.S. Bach … the list of titans of classical music could fill an entire concert hall. While many still… Read More

As a republic, Rome was very successful. In 27 B.C., the republic became an empire ruled by emperors. The empire lasted five centuries, but it eventually went through stagnation and decline. Finally, it collapsed in A.D. 476. The modern world… Read More

The fighting between Israel and Palestine has been going on since World War II, though the origins can be traced a little farther back. In 1917, the British took Palestine from the Ottoman Empire and declared a “national home for… Read More

The ancient Greek city-states were very successful for several hundred years, but they were eventually conquered by a new power: Rome. The Romans had learned from the Greeks. They took the best of their systems and invented a hybrid called… Read More

When you are born, you become a citizen of your country. Today, this may seem natural, but it hasn’t always been this way. The idea of citizenship has been traced back to Ancient Greece. Around 2,800 years ago, Greek farmers… Read More

The beginnings of the United Nations came in January 1942, when representatives of 26 nations at war with Germany, Italy, and Japan – also called the Axis – convened in Washington, D.C. Officials signed the Declaration of the United Nations… Read More

The first half of the 1900s saw a lot of war – including both World War I and World War II. Once the Allied Expeditionary Forces defeated the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) at the end of World War… Read More

While foreign policy did not dominate the 2020 U.S. presidential election, President Donald Trump achieved remarkable success on this file during his term in the Oval Office. Brokering Middle East peace agreements, winding down the number of U.S. troops overseas,… Read More

Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany, German-occupied Europe, and collaborators killed six million Jews. The Second World War genocide was the most tragic event of the 20th century. Despite this, Millennials and Generation Z lack a basic understanding of the… Read More

How far is America willing to take political correctness and refrain from saying or doing anything that might offend someone, whether here in the United States or elsewhere in the world? For Hollywood, that answer would be pretty far. Not… Read More