Guest writer Thomas Simpson offers a review of historian Eric Foner's towering new book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. Thomas holds a master's degree in History from Georgetown University and is a core member of Facing History's Marketing and Communications team.
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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
"Nothing the November Republic Promised...," Der Stürmer Antisemitic Cartoon
A cartoon from antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer of an officer walks into a small apartment where a family has died.
Title: "The Way Out"
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Race in US History
The Reconstruction Era
"Of Course He Votes the Democratic Ticket" (1876)
A political cartoon printed during The Reconstruction Era in Harper's Weekly depicting the intimidation techniques that the Democratic Party used to suppress southern black votes in the election of 1876.
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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
"Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (1927)
Copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an antisemitic publication that purports to describe the fabricated plans of Jewish leaders to secretly rule the world.
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Holocaust
Transforming Germany in the 1930s
"Qualifications for Couple," list created by newly formed Unitarian Service Committee, 1939
Read a list of eligibility requirements for those interested in volunteering with the Unitarian Church during their 1930s European refugee aid project.
Text in document photo reads:
Qualifications for Couple (No. 1 Plan)
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Genocide & Mass Violence
"Seated Youth" (Sitzender Jungling), Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1916-1917)
Seated Youth (Sitzender Jungling) by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, 1916-1917.
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Race in US History
The Reconstruction Era
"Shall We Call Home Our Troops?" (1875)
Political cartoon by Thomas Nast printed during The Reconstruction Era.
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"She saw a world of neighbours..." A Remembrance of Labour MP Jo Cox
Remembering British Labor MP, Jo Cox, after she was assassinated.
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Race in US History
The Reconstruction Era
"The Birth of a Nation" Summarizes Reconstruction
The Birth of a Nation, a 1915 film portraying D.W. Griffith's racist vision of life in the South during the Civil war era, summarizes Reconstruction.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," directed by Robert Wiene (1920)
Still image from the silent expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. This horror film follows a mentally ill hypnotist who uses a hypnotized person to commit murders. The writers, Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, derived the idea for the script from their experiences with authority and obedience in the military during World War I.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
"The Fallen Man" (Der Gesturzte), Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1915-1916)
The Fallen Man (Der Gesturzte) by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, c. 1915-1916
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
"The Holy Mountain" (Der heilige Berg), directed by Leni Riefenstahl (1924)
Der heilige Berg (The Holy Mountain, 1926) -- Leni Riefenstahl's first film. The film is about a dancer who meets a man at his mountain cottage and falls in love with him.
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