The incredible story of Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz and of Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg whose program saved tens of thousands of Jews and showed that a cross-nation collaborative diplomatic effort could be implemented.
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Reserve Police Battalion 101
Investigate perpetrator behavior with historian Christopher Browning’s study of the men of a police unit that killed Jews during World War II.
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Revising the Test
Investigate how Lewis Terman, a professor of education at Stanford University, created a test in 1917 that measured the mental abilities of large groups of people.
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Roosevelt, Malik, & Cassin's Reflections on Human Rights
Consider the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the challenges to implementing it.
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Holocaust
Secretary Morgenthau's Report on the Acquiescence of the US Government in the Murder of the Jews
In 1944, Treasury Department Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and his aides put together a report detailing the State Department's obstructionist efforts that kept Jewish refugees from escaping Nazi atrocities. As a result of Morgenthau's report, President Roosevelt established a War Refugee Board which went on to save as many as 200,000 Jews.
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Seeking a Strategy that Works
Learn about the Pakistani activist Khalida Brohi and the strategies that she employed to improve the lives of women and girls throughout her country.
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Justice & Human Rights
Social and Economic Rights: Eleanor’s Speech at the Sorbonne
Investigate Eleanor Roosevelt’s description of the differences between the way Americans and Soviets viewed personal freedoms and rights in this excerpt of her speech delivered at the Sorbonne.
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South Africa's First Nonracial Democratic Election
South African poet and activist Mazisi Kunene reflects on his experience voting in South Africa’s first non-racial democratic election in 1994.
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Race in US History
Taking Down the Confederate Flag
Learn about the recent debate over the Confederate flag in South Carolina following the murders at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015.
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Global Immigration
Talking About Religion
Eboo Patel reflects on how religion impacts his identity and a time in his past when he was a bystander.
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Justice & Human Rights
The "Four Freedoms" Speech
Investigate the four fundamental freedoms that Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt proposed as the foundation of a civilized, moral world.
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The Bear That Wasn't
Explore identity, conformity, and authority with this modern fable about a bear forced to navigate society's perception of who he is.
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