Explore South Africa’s tumultuous history from the early interactions between white European settlers and native African tribes to the implementation of apartheid and the long struggle for democracy.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools
Explore our online resource on the Indian Residential Schools and their long-lasting effects on Canada’s Indigenous Peoples.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Vies volées: Les Peuples Autochtones au Canada et le régime des pensionnats
Explorez nos ressources en ligne sur les pensionnats autochtones et leurs effets à long terme sur les Peuples Autochtones au Canada.
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Holocaust
Choosing to Rescue
Sociologist Nechama Tec explores the story of one woman, Stefa Dworek - a Polish Christian - and her motivation to shelter a Jewish woman during the Holocaust. If caught rescuing a Jew during this time, Stefa would have faced imprisonment or worse. Yet about 2 percent of the Polish Christian population chose to hide Jews in a nation known for its long history of antisemitism.
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Holocaust,
Propaganda
Propaganda Posters
Have students analyze these examples of Nazi propaganda using the Crop It teaching strategy.
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Race in US History
The Reconstruction Era
Speech by President Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address
This is an audio recording of President Lincoln's second inaugural address (March 4, 1865).
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Democracy & Civic Engagement,
Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
The Battle of Cable Street
Explore images from the Battle of Cable Street of 1936, when thousands in East London stood in solidarity against Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.
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The Armenian Genocide
The Changing Geography of the Ottoman Empire (1300–1920)
Maps showing the growth and contraction of territory controlled by the Ottoman Empire from 1300 through 1920.
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Genocide & Mass Violence,
The Nanjing Atrocities
To Carry History: Calvin Chew Wong's Family: Four Generations of Immigrants
The story of Calvin Chew Wong is representative of the idea of generational history passed down that is explored in the reading To Carry History. It took four first generation immigrants of the Wong Family to come to settle in America before a second generation Wong was born on American soil. From Calvin’s family line, he, Calvin Chew Wong was the first generation to emigrate to America, his son Michael Wong was the first second generation to be born, and his grandson Justin Matsuura was the first third generation to be born to the Wong Family. Now there are three generations of Calvin Wong’s line who are living in America.
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Justice & Human Rights
UDHR Workshop Day 1 Overview
Listen to the introduction from day one of the UDHR Workshop.
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Justice & Human Rights
UDHR Workshop Day 2 Overview
The horrors of World War II, the new and frightening power of the atomic bomb, and the Nazi genocide of Jews and of others deemed unworthy to live shocked the consciences of people all over the world in 1945. This capacity and desire to destroy whole populations of humanity prompted First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to warn that "In the end...we are 'One World' and that which injures any one of us, injures all of us."
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