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Students consider how US history books, films, and other works of popular culture have misrepresented the history of the Reconstruction era.

By comparing multiple versions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, students gain insight into the motives of those who crafted it.

Students examine the pressures on European Jews as they moved away from the shtetls to larger urban centers at end of the nineteenth century.

Students consider the power of historical symbols as they investigate the 2015 controversy over the Confederate flag in South Carolina and then draw connections to the violence in Charlottesville.

Students study two US responses, one diplomatic and one humanitarian, to the human rights violations that occurred during the Armenian Genocide.