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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
Educators Value Facing History Professional Development
Educators and administrators discuss how Facing History professional development has helped prepare them to address important topics with their students.
American Experience: America and the Holocaust
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This episode of The American Experience examines the role of the United States in the Holocaust, exploring such issues as American antisemitism and the deliberate suppression of information that European Jews were slated for genocide.
A Jew is Not One Thing
Jewish identity has many facets. This film explores the complexity and contradiction inherent in a diverse community.
Using Your Voice Is a Political Choice
Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in US history, explains in this TED Talk why poetry is inherently political and stresses the value of speaking out despite your fears.
A Letter to Teachers: This is Facing History
Margot Stern Strom, students and educators discuss Facing History’s story and impact.
A Plea for Humanity: The Einsatzgruppen on Trial
Benjamin Ferencz, International Law Scholar and Former Nuremberg Prosecutor, shares his experience as Chief Prosecutor at the trial of the Einsatzgruppen commanders.
A General's Responsibility: Matsui, Nanjing, and the Tokyo Trial
Scholar Beth Van Schaack discusses General Matsui Iwane’s involvement in the Nanjing atrocities.
Doc Miller - Creating a Reflective Classroom Community
Facing History's Doc Miller discusses reflective classrooms.
Reporter: Psychic Numbing
Nicholas Kristof describes psychic numbing: caring less as a number of victims increases.
Dehumanizing the Enemy
Scholar James Edward Waller discusses how perpetrators of atrocities dehumanize their victims.
Designing Destruction: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Former Soviet Territory
Joshua Rubenstein, associate at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies, describes the gradual evolution of Hitler's master plan for the "Jews of Europe" and how this unfolded within German-occupied Soviet territory.