Books & Borrowing

Not all Jews felt equally threatened by discriminatory policies of the prewar Nazi regime due to antisemitic legislation being applied at various levels of intensity in different areas of Germany.

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 resource features stories of civic participation and social change that inspire conversation among students about the importance of participation in a community, nation, and world.

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 Choices in Little Rock 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.

This resource provides the opportunity for a multimedia approach to teaching the history and legacies of the Armenian Genocide and the challenges of responding to crimes against humanity.

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.

This guide provides a framework for using the landmark documentary film Eyes on the Prize as a tool for teaching the civil rights movement.

Visual images in both print and television have been used to create a certain notion of our enemies both in the U.S. and abroad.

This documentary examines the efforts of South Africans to deal with their past, specifically the years of apartheid, focusing on individuals who testified before the nation’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Filmmaker Macky Alston searches for a connection between his own family and two African American families with the same last name. The families trace their ancestors to the same plantation.

Uprooted from their home, Seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family were sent to live at Manzanar internment camp with ten thousand other Japanese Americans in 1942.

In 1960, four men initiated lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, NC, which served as a blueprint for the wave of nonviolent civil rights protests that would later sweep the nation.