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.
Disrupting the Legacies of Eugenics
Facing History shares on the history of eugenics and encourages educators to bring this important history into the classroom.
![Three skulls are lined in a row.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-04/three_skulls_eugenics_bw.jpeg?h=af8f816e&itok=HYoxwPqA)
Facing Nagorno-Karabakh: An Expert Interview
Marc Mamigonian discusses the conflict taking place between Armenia and Azerbaijan along with historical context concerning the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
![Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh on outline map](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-09/iStock-1277576441.jpg?h=3b841809&itok=JibG0jLw)
What's Wrong with Jojo Rabbit?
Taika Waititi's film Jojo Rabbit polarized both critics and audiences. This review considers the limits of its perspective on WWII and antisemitism.
![A group of Hitler Youth marching through a field](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-09/Hitler_Youth_Hiking_FH229449.jpg?h=359ead47&itok=-lq1BuTl)
Red Scarf Girl Today: An Interview with Ji-li Jiang
Red Scarf Girl author Ji-li Jiang illuminates a number of key lessons that American educators and citizens can glean from the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
![A drawing of young children in China holding little red books in the air.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/RedScarfGirl_preview.png?h=52abab5c&itok=GXuIUI83)