Commentary by Professor Lawrence Langer. Painting by Samuel Bak. See full size painting.
Commentary by Professor Lawrence Langer. Painting by Samuel Bak. See full size painting.
From A Teacher's Guide to Holocaust and Human Behavior: Five-Week Unit Outline, students analyze the following propaganda images used by the Nazis.
Two Jews meet with a Polish courier during the Grossaktion Warsaw in summer 1942, imploring him to tell the world what was happening to Jews.
Rapper Ruby Ibarra reflects on her Filipino-American experience and the role of language in this spoken-word poem.
View images of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. The Sharps were Unitarians who were sent on a mission by the Unitarian Church to aid and rescue refugees in Europe, which was on the brink of war. They worked first in Czechoslovakia and then later in Vichy France.
The Meiji Period in Japan (1868-1912) included many institutional reforms attempting both to modernize as well as maintain their sovereignty. These images document efforts of modernization most evident in the military, civil government, education, and cultural institutions.
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.
"Mir ist heut so nach Tamerlan!" is a Cabaret song from the Weimar Republic in Germany, 1922. Music was composed by Rudolf Nelson and lyrics were written by Kurt Tucholsky.