Experience Facing History

  • “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” - Robert Frost. Find five resources to help you weave poetry into your lesson plans during National Poetry Month in April.
  • “The biggest roadblock to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance.” - John Prendergast. For Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, introduce this difficult but important topic into your classroom with these four resources.
  • April is the 100 year anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Our improved Resource Collection makes it easy to help students connect how this brutal history shaped our understanding of genocide.
  • The votes are in! Shireen’s essay and Arvaughn’s spoken word poem blew us and YOU away! Check out the two winners of our Facing History Together Student & Alumni Upstander Scholarship Contest.
  • Can Music be an Agent of Change? Our four-part “Sounds of Change” blog series explores how the the lyrical sounds of soul music intertwined with the complex social changes of the 1950s and 60s.

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  • 20
    Monday
    April, 2015
    Chicago
    Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior
  • 20
    Monday
    April, 2015
    Denver
    Choices Matter: A Community Conversation with John Amaechi
  • 4
    Monday
    May, 2015
    Miami
    A Conversation with Dr. Terrence Roberts