Consider the motivations of individuals who rescued Jews during the Holocaust.
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Civil Rights as Human Rights
Learn about the connection between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the struggle for civil rights in the United States.
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Clauses from the Treaty of Versailles
Read and reflect on clauses from the Treaty of Versailles that punish Germany for its role in World War I.
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Holocaust
Colonizing Poland
Learn about the Nazis’ plan to rearrange the population of Poland, which resulted in the displacement of more than a million ethnic Poles and Jews (Spanish available).
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Commemorating the War
View and analyze John Singer Sargent’s memorial to World War I, the painting Gassed.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Committee for Freedom of the Press Letter
A letter in response to police detention and harassment of journalists, delivered to the Ferguson and St. Louis County Police departments and the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
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Race in US History
Congress Debates the Fourteenth Amendment
In this reading the US Congress debates the 14th amendment to the Consititution, which grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” including former slaves recently freed.
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Holocaust
Controlling the Universities
Learn how the Nazis pushed their ideology onto German universities, and how academics like Heidegger and Einstein responded.
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Cordell Hull’s Telegram to Hiram Bingham, September 18, 1940
Read the letter written to Hiram Bingham by the Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in response to rescue efforts of Jews and non-Jews in Vichy France.
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Race in US History
Created Equal: How Benjamin Banneker Challenged Jefferson on Race and Freedom
When the Bill of Rights was adopted in 1791, the liberties it provided were withheld from the hundreds of thousands of Africans living in slavery. In a public letter to Thomas Jefferson, a free African-American Benjamin Banneker challeneged the treatment of blacks and the continued existence of slavery.
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Creating a Constitutional Government
Examine the rights, protections, and democratic aspirations in the constitution of Germany’s newly formed democracy, the Weimar Republic.
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Creating a New Narrative
This speech delivered at the dedication of the Lynching of Ell Persons Historical Marker is a powerful reflection on the creation of new historical symbols.
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