Learn about how to approach the history you learn with a critical and thoughtful eye, and why representation and inclusion matter, specifically in the context of Black History Month.
Learn about how to approach the history you learn with a critical and thoughtful eye, and why representation and inclusion matter, specifically in the context of Black History Month.
Roger Brooks, CEO and President of Facing History, shares the experience of a Facing History high school freshman from Palo Alto, California.
Learn how Memphis high school students were inspired by a class research project to create the action group Students Uniting Memphis and bring the community together commemorate the 1917 murder of lynching victim of Ell Persons.
Resources to help educators manage the difficult conversations around the bigotry and hatred demonstrated by white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, VA.
A student shares their experience with Facing History and Ourselves' seminal resource, Holocaust and Human Behavior and the class' journey through Scope and Sequence.
Living Dr. King’s words, Nida marches toward a secure and livable world with the disciplined nonconformists dedicated to justice and peace.
Read student Morgan's experience being bullied and how she used her experiences as a catalyst to lobby for a statewide task force to study bullying in Kentucky. Morgan's essay was a scholarship-winning submission for Facing History's 2017 "Making Choices in Today's World" student essay contest.
Shreya draws inspiration from three influential figures in STEM: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson who experienced racism and sexism while working as mathematicians at NASA's Langley Laboratory in the early 1960s.
What does it mean to live in a world where even our most sacred spaces are vulnerable to the most violent crimes? What are our responsibilities as individuals? What should our collective response be?
On a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Maud, the granddaughter of a survivor, learns more about an upstander with whom she has a personal connection.
Scholarship winner Claire draws personal connections to the story of upstander Fred Korematsu, a civil rights activist who brought a lawsuit against the United States to object against the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.