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Below is a collection of all of our online video clips, with the most recent clips appearing first. You can use the search to filter your results. Watch this space for more as we continue to grow our extensive library online.

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See video Changing the World One Student At a Time: Principal Jose Navarro

Jose Navarro, a principal at Social Justice Humanitas Academy in San Fernando, California, speaks eloquently about his personal journey into education and how Facing History and Ourselves taught him that “I have the right, the...

See video "To Give My Voice to Those Who Don’t Yet Have One": Aung Khine M.

Aung Khine M. recounts the harrowing tale of his family's experiences in Burma and their journey as refugees. He learned English in refugee camps, but it was when he became a Facing History and Ourselves student at Lowell (MA) High...

See video "I Really Learned the Power that Language Has": Aung Khine M.

Aung Khine M., a student at Lowell (MA) High School and a refugee from Burma, explains in this excerpt from his remarks how his Facing History and Ourselves teacher Ms. Morgenstern and other upstanders have helped him learn the power...

See video Katrina Browne: A Family Struggles with Faith, History, Slavery

In the feature documentary Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace...

See video Katrina Browne on Traces of the Trade

Filmmaker Katrina Browne discovered that her family, prominent in Rhode Island history, were once among the most powerful slave traders in US history. Rather than turn away from this painful knowledge,  Brown chose to examine it...

See video Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns, and America's Great Migration

In The Warmth of Other Suns, Wilkerson tells one of the greatest under-reported stories in American history: a time when some six million black Americans fled the American South for an uncertain existence in the urban North...

See video Fellow Citizens: Jonathan Sarna on George Washington and Religious Liberty

Scholar Jonathan Sarna explores formative moments in the evolution of religious liberty in the United States. Beginning with the Constitution's clause banning religious tests for office and the passage of the Bill of Rights, he creates...

See video “It Didn’t Begin with the Nazis:” Christian Antisemitism

It is impossible to separate Nazi racist antisemitism from Christian anti-Judaism based on theology, Father Robert Bullock explains.

See video Moments and Decisions: Making History Their Own

Students at Mexico City's Prepa Ibero school made history  when they opened a mobile Holocaust museum that examines European and Mexican histories through the Facing History...

See video Urban Education and Facing History: Douglass High School in Memphis

In Memphis, Tennessee, students at city schools experience extraordinary moments of reflection through a unique Facing History elective. Through course work that fosters academic rigor, critical thinking, and writing skills, students...