Join us for an inspiring evening to support our work reaching students across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Join us for an inspiring evening to support our work reaching students across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Meet the scholars and representatives of education and civil society organizations who will form a global learning community to examine how Education can be used to combat threats against liberal democracy.
This is an audio recording of President Lincoln's second inaugural address (March 4, 1865).
Understand the history of the Indian Residential Schools system with this timeline spanning from early history to today.
In this segment of an interview conducted by Studs Terkel, Eileen Barthe, a government relief case worker during the Great Depression, remembers an experience that caused a recipient of relief to face deep humiliation.
Studs Terkel interviews Emma Tiller, a cook who describes how African Americans would feed people who were in need during the Great Depression, without any regard to their skin color.
In an interview with Studs Terkel, Virginia Foster Durr, a prominent American civil rights activist, reflects on life during the Great Depression, particularly the way that people on government relief felt shame and guilt over their own suffering and poverty, rather than blaming the capitalist system.
As the Nazi regime consolidated its power, German universities were targeted and purged of any academics who refused to pledge allegiance to National Socialism. In this audio reading Austrian Economist Peter Drucker recounts the moment he realized he needed to leave his country because of the terror and intimidation that was occurring.
Jeff McGuire, Executive Director of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, speaks about the rising rates of Antisemitic hate crimes in Ontario and the ways that police units across Ontario are responding.
The Hitler Youth Movement every aspect of a German person's young life. Erika Mann, a German opposed to the Nazis, describes how even at a 12-year-old boy's birthday party, the intimidation and power of the Hitler Youth filters into the celebration.
The House debated John Trevor’s immigration plan in March and April of 1924. Excerpts from the debate reveal how strongly members felt about immigration and reveal the extent of the influence of Harry Laughlin, a leading American eugenicist.