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Walking with the Wind (en español)
Congressman and activist John Lewis describes his vision of how we can work together to strengthen our communities and make a better world. This resource is in Spanish.
![Painting of people holding hands](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/working_together_344329416_o.jpg?h=afb0b43a&itok=MgH99TaS)
What Difference Can a Word Make?
Consider the power that words have to influence people to act on behalf of others.
![C.P. Ellis, a white man, and Ann Atwater, a Black woman, sit together holding hands.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/ActivistsCPEllisandAnnAtwater_FH229560.jpg?h=cfed2447&itok=wa0fFJ55)
What Difference Can a Word Make? (en español)
Consider the power that words have to influence people to act on behalf of others. This resource is in Spanish.
![C.P. Ellis, a white man, and Ann Atwater, a Black woman, sit together holding hands.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/ActivistsCPEllisandAnnAtwater_FH229560.jpg?h=cfed2447&itok=wa0fFJ55)
Who We Are, Or Could Be, in Times of Crisis
Historian and activist Rebecca Solnit writes about people’s responses to disasters and the human capacity to do good.
![Volunteers from AmeriCorps carry a floor joist at a Habitat for Humanity home site in New Orleans.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/hurricane-katrina-new-orleans-la-1-21-06-volunteers-from-americorps-carry-a-57b2dc.jpeg?h=bd545f04&itok=iqPpvYcb)
Anti-Judaism before the Enlightenment
Deepen your understanding of the history of antisemitism with this overview of the persecution, violence, and restrictions Jews throughout Europe faced during the Middle Ages.
![A contemporary drawing of the Hep! Hep! riots in Frankfurt am Main in 1819. Notice that both men and women participated in the violence.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2015_HepHepRiots_FH147029.jpg?h=68d52520&itok=QlgzjK49)
Anti-Judaism before the Enlightenment (en español)
Deepen your understanding of the history of antisemitism with this overview of the persecution, violence, and restrictions Jews throughout Europe faced during the Middle Ages. This resource is in Spanish.
![A contemporary drawing of the Hep! Hep! riots in Frankfurt am Main in 1819. Notice that both men and women participated in the violence.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2015_HepHepRiots_FH147029.jpg?h=68d52520&itok=QlgzjK49)
Breeding Society’s "Fittest"
Learn how people in the late nineteenth-century used race science, social Darwinism, and eugenics to justify their ideas about membership.
![The Nazis used public displays to spread their ideas of race. The chart shown here is titled "The Biology of Growth," and is labeled "Stages of Growth for Members of the Nordic Race."](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2022_Stages_of_Growth_for_Members_of_the_Nordic_Race_FH2173574.jpg?h=4ef8ed75&itok=8_9e8SNU)
Creating the German Nation
Read about the confluence of nationalism, race science, and German-unification efforts in mid-eighteenth-century German society.
![Germania, painted by Philipp Veit in 1848, was a symbol of the German nation during the revolutions of 1848–49 and in later years.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch02_Image07.jpg?h=af65be21&itok=QpBQpuIJ)
"Expansion Was Everything"
Read about nineteenth-century Imperialism, the Congress of Berlin, and W. E. B. Du Bois’ analysis of the profound consequences of Europe's colonization of Africa.
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Inventing Black and White
Learn how Bacon’s Rebellion became a turning point for the way the laws of colonial Virginia distinguished people of different races.
![This 1905 painting by Howard Pyle depicts the burning of Jamestown in 1676 by black and white rebels led by Nathaniel Bacon.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch02_Image04.jpg?h=88e54252&itok=CN84Dt0-)
Religion, Loyalty, and Belonging
Read statements by George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte about religious freedom and the membership of Jews in eighteenth-century France and the United States.
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