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.
Centering Queer History and Students in the Classroom: Insights from Eric Marcus
Eric Marcus speaks with Facing History about his experience researching LGBTQIA+ history and how he helps students connect to these stories.
A message of gratitude and encouragement this Teacher Appreciation Week
During Teacher Appreciation Week, we celebrate all educators and thank you for helping build a more ethical, compassionate future.
Why Our Work Together Matters
A Message from Facing History’s New President and CEO Desmond K. Blackburn, PhD
How One Lesbian Couple Defied the Nazis: An Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Jackson
Meet Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe (better known as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore), a French lesbian couple who defied the Nazis with art.
Remembering Judy Heumann and Honoring Her Legacy
Facing History’s David Levy recalls learning about Judy Heumann and how she inspired his own advocacy for disability rights.
Women's Suffrage at 100: The Key Role of Black Sororities
Dr. Tara White illuminates the role Black sorority sisters like Mary Church Terrell played in securing women’s suffrage in the United States.
Beyond the Founding Fathers: A More Inclusive Way to Teaching the Founding Era
Facing History’s Ambria Reed discusses the limitations of traditional US history education on the founding era, and offers a more diverse and critical approach.
Teaching Black History All Year: Educators Speak
Hear how Facing History teachers from diverse backgrounds and settings incorporate Black History into their curriculum in February and beyond.
What is Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?
Start integrating Social-Emotional Learning in the classroom with this high-level look at what SEL is, along with some helpful intro tools.
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.