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Democracy & Civic Engagement
A Look Ahead at Women's History Month 2020
Stay tuned for these 5 forthcoming posts around the connections between women’s history, women’s activism, and education this Women's History Month.
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A Memphis Student Leader Reflects on Her Facing History Experience
Get inspired by Addie as she talks about the type of work she and other Facing History Student Leaders from Memphis are getting done together. Addie speaks at the 2015 Memphis Benefit Dinner.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
A New Generation of Young Voters Emerges
While young people have a huge stake in US elections, historically they don’t show up when it comes time to vote. These teaching ideas allow students to explore youth voter turnout trends and how young people are trying to change them.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
The Nanjing Atrocities
A Piece of History You Might Not Have Learned in School
This weekend marks the 77th anniversary of the Nanjing Atrocities, a seminal event in the history of World War II, yet one that few know much about.
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Perpetrators and Mass Murder
Trials and Justice
A Plea for Humanity: The Einsatzgruppen on Trial
Benjamin Ferencz, International Law Scholar and Former Nuremberg Prosecutor, shares his experience as Chief Prosecutor at the trial of the Einsatzgruppen commanders.
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A Project Focused Learning Initiative in Action at Boston's JCDS
Facing History's Jewish Education Program worked with teachers and 8th grade students at JCDS, Boston's Jewish Community Day School on their Project Focused Learning Initiative (PFLI) project.
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Holocaust
World Responses
Expanding the Third Reich
A Sinister Alliance: Soviet-German Relations 1939–1941
Joshua Rubenstein, author and associate at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies, details the relationship between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the decade before World War II.
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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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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
Absil Walter - Blood Libel
Holocaust survivor Absil Walter recalls the blood libel myth’s impact on his community.
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Justice & Human Rights
Acclaimed Educator Frank Stebbins on Facing History and Human Rights Education
Frank Stebbins speaks about his path to teaching, unique approaches in the classroom, and how Facing History has been instrumental in his development as an educator. Stebbins was recently named the 2019 Hank Kaplowitz Outstanding Human Rights Educator of the Year by the Human Rights Institute at Kean University.
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Resistance
Transforming Germany in the 1930s
Acting on Faith: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Protest Against National Socialism - Victoria Barnett
Dr. Victoria Barnett speaks about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who took a stand against the Nazis.
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