Students learn about pre-war Jewish life and compare it with today’s diaspora in order to reflect on how modernity can impact tradition.
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Holocaust
A Matter of Obedience?
Learn about psychologist Stanley Milgram’s experiments on obedience and the insight they offer into the motives of Nazi perpetrators.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy and Religion
Learn about how Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America (1835), viewed democracy, freedom, and religion.
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Holocaust
Choices that Define Us
Explore three stories of choices people made during World War II and consider their complexities, their impact, and what they can teach about human behavior.
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Holocaust
Christian Churches and Antisemitism: New Teachings
Consider how Christian churches confronted their legacy of antisemitism in the years following the Holocaust.
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Global Immigration
Religion and Belonging
Explore the relationship between religious identity and belonging with these accounts of Asian migrants in Britain.
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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
Religion and Identity
Four teenagers from different religious traditions reflect on their experiences of religious belief and belonging.
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Holocaust
Reserve Police Battalion 101
Investigate perpetrator behavior with historian Christopher Browning’s study of the men of a police unit that killed Jews during World War II.
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Global Immigration
Talking About Religion
Eboo Patel reflects on how religion impacts his identity and a time in his past when he was a bystander.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Connections for Investigation One
- What is empathy? What is compassion? When have you felt empathy and/or compassion for something or someone? What provoked this feeling in you? Did you do anything as a result?
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Connections for Investigation Two
- If you had the opportunity to interview Nicholas Kristof, what would you want to ask him?
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Bullying & Ostracism
Dennis Barr
Dennis Barr is the Director of Program Evaluation at Facing History and Ourselves, as well as a psychologist. He is a Lecturer of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was the principal investigator for the Carnegie Corporation of New York-funded research entitled, Intergroup relations among youth: a study of the impact and processes of Facing History and Ourselves. The Ostracism Case Study emerged from this project. Barr has published articles based on his research on social and ethical development and risk taking behavior in adolescents.
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