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Democracy & Civic Engagement
A Look Ahead at Women's History Month 2020
Stay tuned for these 5 forthcoming posts around the connections between women’s history, women’s activism, and education this Women's History Month.
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A Muslim Girl Wears a Hijab as a Symbol of Islam
Here, a Muslim girl visibly shows her religion by wearing a hijab headscarf. After the 9/11 attacks, many Muslims notably embraced their religion in response to the defamatory statements about their community.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
A Muslim Widow
A Muslim widow examines body bags containing the remains of recently exhumed victims of the 1992 “ethnic cleansing” campaign waged by Serbs against their Muslim neighbors (July 2001). Exhumations of mass graves began in 1996 and are expected to last for many years to come. Nearly 30,000 Muslims—most of them civilians—were listed as missing at the end of the war; most are believed to have been victims of “ethnic cleansing.”
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The Reconstruction Era
A New Approach to Teaching the Reconstruction Era
During this webinar, you will be introduced to teaching about the Reconstruction era using an approach that helps students connect this history to their own lives and the choices they make today.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
The Nanjing Atrocities
A Piece of History You Might Not Have Learned in School
This weekend marks the 77th anniversary of the Nanjing Atrocities, a seminal event in the history of World War II, yet one that few know much about.
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Trials and Justice
A Plea for Humanity: The Einsatzgruppen on Trial
Photograph of Chief Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz at the Nuremberg Trial.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
A Rare Drink
Ngaujah takes a break at a local restaurant, where he often rests during the day to escape from the heat on the streets. Usually he does not eat or drink during the day, saving the money he receives for his family. The only reason he is having a drink on this day is because a visitor bought it for him. Photograph by Sara Terry.
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A Street in Marion, Alabama
This is a view of a Southern U.S. street in the mid-1930s, Alabama.
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Holocaust
A Window Destroyed in a Jewish Owned Business
A window destroyed in a Jewish owned business. Berlin, Germany, November 1938.
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The Nanjing Atrocities
A Woman Escorted to the Hospital
A Chinese woman is carried into the hospital for gunshot wounds inflicted by a Japanese soldier who threatened to rape her.
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Trials and Justice
A special newspaper edition that was published on October 1, 1946
A special newspaper edition that was published on October 1, 1946 announcing the pronouncement of sentences at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany
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