Consider how Christian churches confronted their legacy of antisemitism in the years following the Holocaust.
Consider how Christian churches confronted their legacy of antisemitism in the years following the Holocaust.
Learn about the connection between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the struggle for civil rights in the United States.
Read and reflect on clauses from the Treaty of Versailles that punish Germany for its role in World War I.
Learn about the Nazis’ plan to rearrange the population of Poland, which resulted in the displacement of more than a million ethnic Poles and Jews (Spanish available).
How do your childhood experiences shape your identity? For Japanese author and Nobel Laureate Oe Kenzaburo, World War II remains one of these memories and became a seminal part of his identity as an author.
View and analyze John Singer Sargent’s memorial to World War I, the painting Gassed.
Learn how Los Angeles-area artists marked the 100 year anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Jin Xuefei’s poem and Charlene Wang’s anecdote show how the context in which we understand our past can shape how we understand ourselves today.
Learn how the Nazis pushed their ideology onto German universities, and how academics like Heidegger and Einstein responded.
Read the letter written to Hiram Bingham by the Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in response to rescue efforts of Jews and non-Jews in Vichy France.
Examine the rights, protections, and democratic aspirations in the constitution of Germany’s newly formed democracy, the Weimar Republic.
Read about the confluence of nationalism, race science, and German-unification efforts in mid-eighteenth-century German society.