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This first-hand look at China's tumultuous history examines the country's social, political, and cultural upheaval through eyewitness accounts, archival film footage, and commentary.

This film traces over 40 years of turbulent race relations through the lens of prime-time entertainment.

This resource provides writing prompts and strategies that align our Choices in Little Rock unit with the expectations of the Common Core State Standards.

This resource provides writing prompts and strategies that align Holocaust and Human Behavior with the expectations of the Common Core State Standards.

This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the Wannsee conference of 1942, at which the “Final Solution of the Jewish question” was planned.

Scholars explore the history of the Armenian Genocide, the role of perpetrators and ordinary people, the choices made by Turkey and the United States, and questions of judgment and legacy.

This collection of stories is a tribute to the people, most of them immigrants, who make Queens such a culturally rich community.

Six diverse people striving to end the suffering in war-ravaged Darfur are followed in this documentary, demonstrating the power of individuals to influence social change.

Estelle Ishigo, a Caucasian women artist, was voluntarily interned with 110,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps in 1942. There, she recorded the deprivations and rigors of camp life with unusual insight.

Using the Fernald School--a Waltham, Mass. institution in which children labeled as “feeble-minded” were confined by the state government--as a case study, this news segment examines the history of eugenics.

Over a single generation, the web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture. What does it mean to be human in a 21st century digital world?

In the aftermath of 9/11, a college student travels across the U.S. to document stories in Sikh, Muslim, and Arab-American communities, raising important questions about “who counts” as American.

Immigrants of every background recall their extraordinary adventures, from the treacherous passage across the sea to the start of a new life in a new land.

In this memoir, Francis Bok recounts his story of being kidnapped into slavery at the age of ten in Sudan.

Arn Chorn Pond elaborates upon his adjustment to high school in New Hampshire as a Cambodian teenager who spoke no English and had no knowledge of American culture.

A woman in a hospital, her head wrapped in bandages, awaits the outcome of a surgical procedure performed by the State in a last-ditch attempt to make her look "normal.”