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Why I Share My Story of Being a Hidden Child During the Holocaust
Flora Hogman shares how telling her story of being a hidden child during the Holocaust to Facing History students helped her heal.
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Why I'm Talking About Race in the Workplace and You Should Too
Mitra Best, Chief Innovation Officer and Principal in new ventures business at PwC shares why we should talk about race in the workplace.
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Holocaust
Why Must We Remember the Holocaust? Because Democracy is Precious.
We must ask why the world should remember the Holocaust, which began more than 75 years ago and enveloped almost all of Europe.
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Why Online Learning Matters: A Q&A with Dr. Sybil Hampton
For the past three years, Dr. Sybil Hampton has been featured as a guest speaker for Facing History and Ourselves’ online course, “Choices in Little Rock.” Her experience as one of the first African American students to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1962 makes her a witness to history. She shares her reflections on why she chooses to participate in Facing History’s online professional development courses.
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Why Our Kids Need Social Emotional Learning
Rather than shy away from difficult issues adults have an obligation to help students face them. Social emotional learning is an effective way to do this.
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Why Reconstruction Matters After this Election
We can look to the aftermath of the Civil War—another period of deep division within the US—to better understand the 2016 presidential election.
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The Nanjing Atrocities
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Why Stories of Rescue Matter
Acts of moral courage are not common, they are exceptional. People actively create opportunities to rescue or choose to help others. It can happen in a blink of an eye or after long deliberation, but these moments are not accidental.
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Global Immigration
Why Teach About Migration? Because It's the Story of Humankind
Studying the history of migration reveals insight into who we are today and provides context for today's current conversations about migration and immigration.
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Why We Need to Continue Studying the Holocaust
Just because an episode in history took place long ago does not mean that we stop asking questions about it, about whose stories are told as we remember, and about what our assumptions about history mean for our lives today.
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Winter Reading Recommendations
Explore reading recommendations for your students from Facing History and Ourselves' Director of Library Services.
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Working for Justice, Stability, and Peace in Shanghai
“The movement to end war and mass atrocities spans centuries, peoples, and ideologies”
I became interested in international criminal law and genocide prevention through Facing History and Ourselves’ founder Margot Stern Strom, for whom I interned during my gap year between high school and college. Margot introduced me to the thoughts of Benjamin Ferencz, the only surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials. As I read through Ben’s articles and books, I internalized his call to action. Margot and Ben’s approach to the world resonated with my heart, my deepest sense of human dignity, and my own moral reasoning as to how we must learn to get along with each other as one human community.
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