Ideas This Week
Ideas This Week is your hub for updates on all things Facing History—from announcements and featured press to expert interviews, impact stories, and essays on the ideas driving our work.
Resistance and Black History
Black resistance to systemic racism has formed a powerful narrative where hate and power are met with organization and defiance.
![Picture of Resist Protest Sign.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/Untitled_design.jpg?h=eb24755d&itok=VBmPqFW4)
One Teacher Speaks to the Power of Our Current Events Collection
Current events come along fast—Facing History gives educators what they need when they need it to reflect on world events with care.
![Image of antimated teacher asking "How will I address this with students tomorrow?""](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-01/BridgetRileyInterview_Frame2_0.png?h=ba6fe428&itok=ONEmOR2i)
What is Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?
Start integrating Social-Emotional Learning in the classroom with this high-level look at what SEL is, along with some helpful intro tools.
![Boy watching video on laptop.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-01/Boy_Watching_Video_on_Laptop_FH2186913.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=oomqL9hU)
January Assemblies
Download our assembly PowerPoints for the month of January for use with Key Stage 3 and 4 students.
![Woman educator of color reads to the classroom.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-09/London_School_Classroom_Educator_%20of_Color_2019_FH2117924.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=JbFgqzT_)
Teaching the History of Human Rights
The visionary project at the heart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is ripe for revisiting, reflection, and engagement. Educators can use these resources to bring the history and contemporary relevance of the UDHR into their classrooms.
![Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others at the opening of Midway Hall, one of two residence halls built by the Public Buildings Administration of Federal Works Agency (FWA) for Negro government girls.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-12/Mary_McLeod_Bethune_Eleanor_Roosevelt_NARA_1943_FH2121581.jpg?h=2f15d1b2&itok=DjG2X0i_)
December Assemblies
Download our assembly PowerPoints for the month of December for use with Key Stage 3 and 4 students.
![Student Emma Mead speaking at the London Benefit Dinner 2016](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/ARP160607_FHAO_Print95_Website.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=M4FLa4AC)
November Assemblies
Download our assembly PowerPoints for the month of November for use with Key Stage 3 and 4 students.
![Teacher working with student in classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/DSC08323.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=8MZMTgcM)
5 Native-Led Podcasts for Media Literacy
The world of podcasting offers a platform for marginalized peoples to share their stories that would otherwise go unheard. Facing History provides five podcasts produced by Native American individuals dedicated to fostering healing within their own communities through the process of telling their stories and sharing their insights.
![Zoomed in photo of woman recording podcast.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/podcasting2.jpeg?h=2bf4480e&itok=RPLdwPTU)
On Living Deliberately
Kaitlin Smith offers personal reflections on what it means to live deliberately.
![Kaitlin Smith kneeling in front of a rock pile and cairns left by visitors at the original site of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord, Massachusetts.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-10/waldenKS3.jpg?h=818f1ba2&itok=S_RIxh3h)
Identity, Literature, and Possibility: A Conversation with Nicole Chung
Facing History's Franklin Stebbins sits down with Nicole Chung as she recounts her experience growing up navigating anti-Asian racism as a transracial adoptee of Korean descent within a white family in small-town Oregon.
![All You Can Ever Know book cover beside Nicole Chung headshot.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/nicolechung2022_large.jpeg?h=f7d9296c&itok=ZCctLuJk)
Helen Zia on the Asian American Movement
This article examines the rise of the Asian American movement through the leading voice of Helen Zia, a Chinese American author and activist working at the intersections of struggles for racial and LGBTQ justice, who helped provide a foundation for AAPI-led resistance against racism and violence.
![Asian American Dreams book cover beside Helen Zia headshot.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/HZ%20and%20AAD_Large.jpeg?h=151e6280&itok=RLlhomJ7)
10 New Books on LGBTQIA+ History and Contemporary Life
Facing History shares ten titles released in the last year that bring important themes in LGBTQIA+ history and contemporary life to the fore, exploring the diverse ways in which this extensive topic is explored by educators, intellectuals, and thought leaders.
![Book cover images of ten LGBTQIA+ novels.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/queerbooklist2.jpeg?h=ca04aa64&itok=H0KONV_z)