Ideas This Week
Ideas This Week is your hub for updates on all things Facing History—from announcements and featured press to expert interviews, impact stories, and essays on the ideas driving our work.
Becoming an Upstander
Brian Fong shares his personal journey to becoming an upstander on a recent episode of the “Language Alchemy” podcast.
Vote for Facing History in CREDO’s Monthly Funding Challenge
Every month, CREDO Mobile chooses three nonprofits to receive grant funds. This month, Facing History is in the running! Help us continue supporting educators in nurturing students’ analytical skills, empathy, and civic agency by voting for us before September 30.
Introducing Ideas This Week
Welcome! We've created a list to help you explore the best of what we have to offer. It covers topics including educator competencies, classroom resources, inspiring stories, and more.
Welcome to Our New Website
Get to know the redesigned FacingHistory.org. Building community has never been easier.
Roger Brooks to Retire as CEO of Facing History - Our Search for a Successor
Roger Brooks has announced his plan to retire after a highly successful tenure at Facing History. We celebrate all he has accomplished with gratitude and launch our search for his successor.
On Living Deliberately
Kaitlin Smith offers personal reflections on what it means to live deliberately.
Identity, Literature, and Possibility: A Conversation with Nicole Chung
Facing History's Franklin Stebbins sits down with Nicole Chung as she recounts her experience growing up navigating anti-Asian racism as a transracial adoptee of Korean descent within a white family in small-town Oregon.
Helen Zia on the Asian American Movement
This article examines the rise of the Asian American movement through the leading voice of Helen Zia, a Chinese American author and activist working at the intersections of struggles for racial and LGBTQ justice, who helped provide a foundation for AAPI-led resistance against racism and violence.
Complicating "Asian Americans"
Facing History explores the complex story surrounding this term to broaden educators' understanding of and ability to teach about AAPI and API histories and contemporary life.
On Existing: A Personal Reflection
Facing History staff takes a moment to reflect on personal experiences of being a minority amidst a climate of hate and the ability to use reading as a tool for discovering oneself.