Explore the relationship between religious identity and belonging with these accounts of Asian migrants in Britain.
Explore the relationship between religious identity and belonging with these accounts of Asian migrants in Britain.
Learn about the religious landscape of colonial America to better understand religious freedom today.
Read statements by George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte about religious freedom and the membership of Jews in eighteenth-century France and the United States.
Learn about German artist Gunter Demnig and his work installing plaques that honor Holocaust victims across Europe.
The incredible story of Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz and of Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg whose program saved tens of thousands of Jews and showed that a cross-nation collaborative diplomatic effort could be implemented.
Investigate how Lewis Terman, a professor of education at Stanford University, created a test in 1917 that measured the mental abilities of large groups of people.
Consider the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the challenges to implementing it.
In 1944, Treasury Department Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and his aides put together a report detailing the State Department's obstructionist efforts that kept Jewish refugees from escaping Nazi atrocities. As a result of Morgenthau's report, President Roosevelt established a War Refugee Board which went on to save as many as 200,000 Jews.
Learn about the Pakistani activist Khalida Brohi and the strategies that she employed to improve the lives of women and girls throughout her country.
Investigate Eleanor Roosevelt’s description of the differences between the way Americans and Soviets viewed personal freedoms and rights in this excerpt of her speech delivered at the Sorbonne.
South African poet and activist Mazisi Kunene reflects on his experience voting in South Africa’s first non-racial democratic election in 1994.
Learn about the recent debate over the Confederate flag in South Carolina following the murders at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015.