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International Program

Facing History’s footprint is global. Our International Program works with a network of 6,887 educators and 407 schools in over 110 countries. We maintain in-depth educational partnerships around the world, including in China, France, Mexico, Northern Ireland, and South Africa.

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Facing History works in schools around the world, providing content, a range of teaching strategies, and face to face and online support.

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Some of the Places We Work

In 2003, we developed a partnership called Facing the Past - Transforming our Future to provide teachers with resources for exploring South Africa’s past.

Northern Ireland

With our partner, Corrymeela, we help teachers address the violent past and divisions within Northern Irish society.

China

Since 2007, we have worked to help promote deeper cross-cultural engagement among educators in China and within our global network.

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Stories about Our Work Worldwide

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Facing History Online Courses Start Teacher in Malaysia on a Journey of Growth

For educators in international schools, like Humanities teacher Ann Whiting, online courses provide an opportunity to discover new publications, teaching methods, and other educators. Read her story.

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Holocaust
Memory and Memorials

Making History: Students in Mexico Open Mobile Holocaust Museum

Students and teachers at the Prepa Ibero School in Mexico City, put the finishing touches on a mobile Holocaust museum. 
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Amsterdam Students Create Walking Tour To Commemorate Holocaust Resistance, Persecution

With help from a Margot Stern Strom Innovation Grant, a teacher turns a dream into reality. 

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Democracy & Civic Engagement

Students in Northern Ireland Bridge Differences Through Facing History

Our work with Corrymeela Community's "Facing Our History, Shaping the Future" initiative inspired two schools to work together across the divisions that dictate so much of Northern Irish life.

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Explore Educator Resources

Teaching RED SCARF GIRL

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Use this guide to Ji-li Jiang’s engaging memoir set during the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution in China to help students explore themes of conformity, obedience, and prejudice.

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Global Immigration

Stories of Identity: Religion, Migration, and Belonging in a Changing World

Featuring the personal narratives of young migrants, this resource challenges students to reflect on the ways that migration affects personal identity.

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Genocide & Mass Violence

The Aftermath Project: War is Only Half the Story

War is only half the story. Use these evocative photographs with your students to explore the human stories that emerge in the aftermath of war and violence.

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Genocide & Mass Violence

Teaching REPORTER

Use this guide with the film, Reporter, featuring New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof to help students explore what it means to be a global citizen in the information age.

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Genocide & Mass Violence

Stitching Truth: Women's Protest Art in Pinochet's Chile

This resource explores the courageous stories of the women in Chile who challenged the silence and terror imposed by Pinochet's dictatorship from 1973–1990.

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International Events

2018

September

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    Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird
    Online Course
    Online

    A New Approach to Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird

    Join us for our online course, Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird, which will help you bring a fresh approach to exploring Harper Lee’s classic work with your students.

    9.20.18 - 10.24.18

  • 20
    Holocaust and Human Behavior
    Online Course
    Online

    Democracy at Risk: Holocaust and Human Behavior

    In today’s global climate, the urgency of sustaining democratic societies that are pluralistic, open, and resilient to violence is more pressing than ever. Studying the Holocaust and human behavior allows students to wrestle with profound moral questions raised by this history while fostering their skills in ethical and moral reasoning, critical analysis, empathy, and civic engagement—all of which are critical habits of mind for sustaining democracy.

    Online
    9.20.18 - 10.24.18

October

  • 4
    A New Approach to Teaching the Reconstruction Era
    Online Course
    Online

    A New Approach to Teaching the Reconstruction Era

    This interactive online course for middle- and high-school teachers explores the Reconstruction era in the United States and the construction of American identity. It includes Facing History’s free teaching resource: The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy.
    Online
    10.4.18 - 11.7.18

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