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.
This award-winning student essay describes a class trip to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in which the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor encounters a photograph of a historical upstander to whom she, and her grandmother, owe their lives.
Student Essay: Gay Olympians are Changing the World
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Kyle G., Chicago, IL
This student essay explores the impact of the increasing visibility of gay olympians, particularly at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Upstander Story: Memphis Students Unite Their Community 100 Years after a Lynching
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Stacey Perlman
This piece describes the student-led activist group Students Uniting Memphis’s effort to gather 500 community members to commemorate the life of lynching victim Ell Persons, and bring awareness to the injustices that occur when we divide people into “us” vs. “them.”
This student essay captures a Muslim student’s journey of creating space of transformative dialogue in the aftermath of an Anti-Muslim hate crime at school.
This award-winning student essay describes a queer student’s journey of stepping into leadership and making an impact as an intern at the LGBTQ+ Center in Greenwich Village.
Upstander Story: 5 Questions for Pulitzer-Winner Sonia Nazario
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Facing History & Ourselves
In this interview, author Sonia Nozario discusses immigration, reporting during times of conflict, and the power young people have to shape our world for the better.
A student shares their experience with Facing History & Ourselves' seminal resource, Holocaust and Human Behavior and the class' journey through Scope and Sequence.
This student essay captures a gay student’s experience navigating the challenges inherent in being visible as a gay person, as well as the responsibility to honor the sacrifices of movement leaders past by being visible today.
Bringing the “Beloved Community” Into The Classroom
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Dr. Steven Becton
In this article, our Chief Officer for Equity & Inclusion, Dr. Steven Becton suggests 5 key practices for bringing the “Beloved Community” into the classroom.
Students Memorialize a Past Tragedy to Create a More Hopeful Future
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Marti Tippens Murphy
Upstanding students at Overton High School create a memorial marker for Ell Persons to bring awareness to the history of racial violence in Memphis, Tennessee.