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Watch this conversation with journalist and author Eli Saslow to learn how white-supremacist ideas migrated from the far-right fringe to the streets of Charlottesville and beyond.

These points are key to creating a brave, nurturing, and safe learning space.

Listen to Mr. Arthur Ullian discuss his childhood experiences as the only Jewish student in elite prep schools he attended, exploring how the challenges he faced can help inform and support educators who want to affirm the dignity of every student in their schools.

Explore strategies and approaches to creating community and sustaining student-centered learning in a digital environment. We consider the challenges of creating an equitable digital experience, share strategies for nurturing your classroom learning community, and consider promising practices to engage students in inquiry, reflection and discussion both online and off-screen.

Free and fair elections are the foundation of all democracies. The US Voting Rights Act of 1965 established protections for all Americans, especially for Black Americans. However the 2013 Supreme Court decision Shelby County v Holder dismantled key elements of the Voting Rights Act and voter suppression efforts are ongoing across the country.  Dr. Carol Anderson; professor, historian, and National Book Critics Circle Award winner, explores the history of the fight for African Americans' voting rights as part of the struggle for racial justice in the United States. This is the second installment in the year-long Facing History Now: Conversations on Equity and Justice virtual event series.

This webinar explores the many questions faced by educators in the wake of the events in Parkland, Florida.

Explore how educators can support students as changemakers today. This webinar will feature a conversation with activist Mary Beth Tinker, insights from educators, and a new teaching unit designed to promote civic skills in your students.

In this webinar, we explore some of the immediate and long-term legacies in the lives of individuals, in the course of nations, and in the policies developed in response to the death and destruction of WWII.

This webinar examines how to use images to support middle school students’ understanding of key themes in the history of the rise of the Nazis and models teaching strategies geared toward helping middle school students analyze historical images.

Studying the history of Reconstruction reveals that American history is lined with recurring cycles of social progress and backlash in which everyday people have surmounted immense barriers to drive powerful change.

Join Brandeis University’s Professor of American Jewish History, Dr. Jonathan D. Sarna, in conversation with Facing History & Ourselves about the history, themes, and relevance of antisemitic in-group signaling continuing to show up in contemporary American society.

Scholars ask why a multifaceted approach for societal repair is needed, create space with poetry, and examine German efforts to atone for Nazi atrocities. This is a recording of session one of the 2021 Global Summit.