This unit explores the legacy of Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word "genocide" and drafted the Genocide Convention. A study of Lemkin's work helps students understand traditional world history themes such as sovereignty, diplomacy, and law; as well as deepen students’ understanding of political responses to mass violence.

This curriculum is designed for Tennessee and Southeast educators teaching a high school elective course on the history of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide.

Explore the impact of the Holocaust and World War II on Jewish communities in North Africa in this 3-lesson mini-unit.

This four-week unit helps students examine the choices and conditions that led to the Armenian Genocide and consider how to protect vulnerable groups today.

Explore how language and culture shape identity, and learn about the challenges faced by the Indigenous Peoples of Canada to preserve their traditional identity.

Découvrez comment la langue et la culture forment l’identité et apprenez-en davantage sur les défis auxquels sont confrontés les Peuples Autochtones au Canada quant à la préservation de leur identité traditionnelle.

Examine how Indigenous identities in Canada have been shaped by the ways European settlers responded to real and imagined differences between themselves and the Indigenous Peoples.

Examinez comment les identités autochtones du Canada ont été façonnées par la façon dont les colons européens ont répondu aux différences réelles et perçues entre eux et les Peuples Autochtones.

Learn the history behind the legislation and policies created by the Canadian government in the nineteenth century to dispossess and assimilate the Indigenous Peoples.

Comprenez l’histoire derrière la législation et les politiques élaborées par le gouvernement du Canada au XIXe siècle, dont l’objectif était de déposséder culturellement les Peuples Autochtones et de les assimiler.

Read firsthand accounts from survivors of their often profoundly painful and damaging experiences at residential schools.

Lisez des témoignages de première main racontant les expériences souvent douloureuses et profondément dommageables que les Survivants et Survivantes ont connues dans les pensionnats autochtones.