Former Jewish partisans reflect on women's participation in organized resistance groups during the Holocaust.
Arn Chorn-Pond tells his story as a refugee from the Cambodian Genocide.
In the first of the Facing History virtual Community Conversation Series, actor and activist George Takei discusses his family’s wrongful incarceration during World War II and how we can all take action against anti-Asian racism on the rise today.
Dr. Paul Bookbinder provides an overview of World War I and its consequences.
There are many classes that teach science, math, and English. There’s only one that teaches us to be more human.
This video tells the story of the Mississippi Voter Registration Project in the 1960s.
Scholar Allida Black describes how former first lady and human rights activist Eleanor Roosevelt worked to develop the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Participants of 'The Great Migration' discuss their lives and their reasons for migrating.
Novelists, as well as the actress Mary Badham, who played To Kill a Mockingbird's narrator, Scout, reflect on this character and the ways in which she addresses issues of gender, race relations, and growing up in the South.
James McBride and Rick Bragg read passages from To Kill a Mockingbird on how historical realities of Southern life affect the characters in the novel.
Oprah Winfrey, Tom Brokaw, and others recall their memories and impressions from reading To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time.
Novelists and Southerners discuss Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and the bravery of the novel for addressing issues of segregation and racism in the South.