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Holocaust

Holocaust and Human Behavior One Week Unit Outline

Revised in 2018, this one-week curriculum introduces students to the history of the Holocaust and the choices of individuals, groups, and nations that contributed to genocide.

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Four Ways to Celebrate Digital Learning Day with Facing History

Here are four ways you can celebrate Digital Learning Day and the role technology plays in your life.

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How You Can Help Students See Other Viewpoints

Official online sources can be powerful tools for developing students' perspectives so they can better understand the world around them. 

Map showing area inhabited by Kurds across the borders of Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.
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Kurdish-Inhabited Area

This map of the Middle East shows the area presently inhabited by the Kurds. At the end of World War I, the Kurds were promised their own independent homeland under the Treaty of Sèvres. The treaty was never ratified, and the Kurds were divided mainly between Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria.

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Holocaust

Passing on a Survivor's Legacy One Hug at a Time

A second-generation Holocaust survivor shares how she is passing on her mother's legacy one hug at a time.  

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Democracy & Civic Engagement

Women Running in the US Midterm Elections is a Good Sign for Democracy

A record number of women are running for office in the 2018 midterm elections--a good sign for democracy.

Harper's Weekly illustration. Cartoon showing members of the South Carolina Legislature in argument in the House, with Columbia rebuking them.
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Race in US History
The Reconstruction Era

"Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State" (1874)

How do racial stereotypes in the media create and reinforce “in” groups and “out” groups in a society?

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A very dark painting featuring three masculine figures in dresses.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement

"Eldorado," Otto Dix

Eldorado by Otto Dix, portraying the famous nightclub in Berlin that was shut down by the Nazis.

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Wood engraving by Thomas Nast done in 1865 containing picture of Abraham Lincoln and scenes of Reconstruction.
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Race in US History
The Reconstruction Era

"Emancipation" (1865)

This is a political cartoon done by Thomas Nast in 1865.

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Cartoon in Harper's Weekly, Oct. 28, 1876. African American man standing with a rifle, in the background other African Americans lay dead and buildings burned. Quotes in the block on left call for meeting force with force.
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Race in US History
The Reconstruction Era

"He Wants a Change Too" (1876)

How do racial stereotypes in the media create and reinforce “in” groups and “out” groups in a society?

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A cartoon with two panels. The first panel shows a man and a woman relaxing under a tree with a guitar. The second panel shows a man and woman sitting in a movie theater.
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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance

"Jewish Culture," Der Stürmer Antisemitic Cartoon

Title: "Jewish Culture"
Caption: "The natural and the unnatural."

Explanation: A German couple enjoy the outdoors, while a Jew with his Gentile girlfriend are watching a pornographic movie. (August 1929)

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A collage of several cutout pieces by Hannah Hoch.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement

"Kitchen Knife," Hannah Hoch (1919)

Hannah Hoch, (Schnitt mit dem kuchenmesser dada durch die letzte weimarer bierbauchkulturepoche deutschlands) Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the First Epoch of the Weimar Beer-Belly Culture, 1919.

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