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Organized thematically, find lesson plans, videos, readings, and images to support and enrich learning in your classroom.
Our Collections are carefully curated with materials that provide you with a range of options for exploring key moments in history or adding new voices and perspectives to your lessons.
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The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy
Use this rich collection of Reconstruction era primary sources, videos, and a 3-week unit to engage your students in this pivotal period in US history and its legacies today.
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Teaching with Testimony
Engage students in personal accounts from survivors with this collection of video testimony, survivor profiles, and a lesson plan.
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Below are 6 books published in 2021 that speak to underacknowledged dimensions of human rights in history, teaching, and contemporary global society.
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Anti-Trans Legislation: How We Got Here and Why it Matters
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Facing History describes the wave of Anti-Transgender legislation happening in the US, and how this affects our trans youth.
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#MeToo Past and Present: 3 New Books on Challenging Gender Violence
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Kaitlin Smith
Facing History summarizes three new books that have been released in the last year that address the ongoing struggle of women against gender violence.
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5 New YA Books on Women's History
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Kaitlin Smith
Facing History provides a list of five YA titles that have been released in the last year that make important themes in women’s history and contemporary life accessible to young readers.
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10 Women Who Made History
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Kaitlin Smith
Facing History invites teachers to take a deeper dive into the histories and experiences of women around the nation in work with their students.
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5 Classroom Resources on Women's History
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Kaitlin Smith
Facing History invites educators to check out the following 5 classroom resources that offer a look at women making history in various contexts and/or contemporary experiences and contributions within various domains.
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Competing Visions of Black Civic Participation
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Kaitlin Smith
The approaches that Black leaders have embraced across space and time are numerous and have encompassed assimilationist and integrationist conceptions of social change, alongside contrasting approaches rooted in Black self-determination and nationalism.
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Why Genocide Recognition Matters
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Jen Langley
Facing History Sr. Director of Marketing & Analytics Jen Langley reflects on her personal connection to the Armenian Genocide.
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Today is the #WeNeedBlackTeachers Day of Action
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Kaitlin Smith
Facing History shares on the importance of having Black teachers in the classroom.
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Youth Activism and Grief on Earth Day
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Kaitlin Smith
Earth Day grants educators the opportunity to consider the ecological issues facing the planet and the unique ways that they are impacting the young people in their classrooms, which both elevates youth activism surrounding the issue and provides a healthy environment to process "ecological grief."
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How to Build an Affirming Classroom in the Face of Anti-Trans Legislation
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Julie Halterman
In response to the rise of legislation targeting transgender people, Facing History provides resources for educators to build an affirming, welcoming class community for your students, especially trans and non-binary students.
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Remembering Rip Patton
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Kaitlin Smith
Facing History commemorates the life of activist and Freedom Rider Ernest "Rip" Patton, Jr.