An online companion to the book The Children of Willesden Lane. This powerful true story of Lisa Jura, one of 10,000 young refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Kindertransport as a child before World War II.
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Music, Memory, and Resistance during the Holocaust
Explore with your students the lives of Jews before World War II and examine music as a form of resistance.
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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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The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy
This rich collection of readings, artwork, primary documents, and biographies, documents the creativity and catastrophe of Germany’s Weimar Republic (1919-1933). How did individual choices shape the events that led to the rise of the Third Reich and collapse of democracy?
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
A Societal Obligation: Wes Moore on Community Responsibility
Author Wes Moore discusses society’s obligation to ask why avoidable tragedies happen.
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Bullying & Ostracism
Angello Portillo at the 2013 Los Angeles Benefit Dinner
Angello Portillo tells about being a bully in middle school and reflects on Facing History
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Bullying & Ostracism
Anna Nolin on Being Proactive
Anna Nolin discusses the importance of being proactive in preventing bullying
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Transforming Germany in the 1930s
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Art as Propaganda: The Nazi Degenerate Art Exhibit
Jonathan Petropoulos discusses the importance of the German 1937 Degenerate Art exhibit.
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Race in US History
Clark Doll Study
Psychologists Mamie and Kenneth Clark prove a connection between segregation and low self-esteem
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Conspiracy Theories - Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah explains why the human mind is attracted to conspiracy theories.
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Creating "We and They": Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses how and why humans create a “we and they” distinction.
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Creating the Conditions for Tolerance - Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses some factors that create conditions for prejudice or tolerance in a society.
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