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.
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Brother Outsider: Remembering Gay Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin
Learn more about Bayard Rustin's life as an openly gay Black civil rights activist who served as the chief organizer of the historic March on Washington.
6 Essays on Women's History
Women’s History Month each year provides teachers a chance to take a deeper dive into the histories and experiences of women around the globe in work with their students.
Fannie Lou Hamer: Unsung Woman of the Civil Rights Movement
Black voter suppression in Mississippi became a national concern due to Fannie Lou Hamer’s leadership during 1964’s Freedom Summer.
Dolores Huerta's Life of Indefatigable Resistance
Dolores Huerta helped advance civil rights and labor rights with her tireless advocacy, organizing a successful labor movement of US farm workers.
Remembering Daisy Bates: Orator at the March on Washington
Daisy Bates boldly challenged racism in Arkansas during Jim Crow. She played a key part in the Little Rock Nine’s fight against school segregation.
Reckoning with Our Past: The Legacy of Migration and Belonging in US History
Learn about the United States’s immigration quota system and its history of discrimination.
2022 Annual Report - Facing History UK
We are delighted to share our Annual Report and our highlights from 2021/22.
March Assemblies
Download our assembly PowerPoints for the month of March for use with Key Stage 3 and 4 students.
Conversations #BehindtheLens for LGBTQ+ History Month
To mark the month, we talked to three LGBTQ+ creatives working behind the lens about the ways that telling queer stories can cultivate acceptance and tolerance in young people.
Why discussing contemporary antisemitism in UK classrooms matters
Find out more about the importance of discussing contemporary antisemitism in the UK in 2023.
Introducing New Inquiries from Facing History
Facing History has recently expanded our teaching resources library with two C3-style inquiries. Read on to learn about our unique approach to this popular teaching approach.