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Imperialism, Conquest, and Mass Murder
Learn about Germany’s atrocities against the Herero, the Nama, and other Indigenous groups in South-West Africa during Europe's colonization of Africa in the late 1800s.
![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-)
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.
![George Washington](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/3.jpg?h=74bddc33&itok=B9RdNJ9K)
The Science of Race
Read about the seventeenth- and eighteenth- century scientists who tried to prove that humankind is divided into separate and unequal races.
![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)
Understanding Strangers
Journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski traces back to the earliest family-tribes and discusses how human beings either cooperate or divide with “the other."
![Abstract image of friends.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2014_friends_FH129352.jpg?h=d9c90c06&itok=awSArrUF)
Understanding Strangers (en español)
Journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski traces back to the earliest family-tribes and discusses how human beings either cooperate or divide with “the other." This resource is in Spanish.
![Abstract image of friends.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2014_friends_FH129352.jpg?h=d9c90c06&itok=awSArrUF)
Universe of Obligation
Reflect on how individuals, communities, and nations decide who has rights that are worthy of respect and protection with this introduction to the concept of the "universe of obligation."
![Integrated classroom listening to lecture.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Integrated_Classroom_at_Anacostia_High_School_Washington_DC.jpg?h=84d4f253&itok=A77sd2zj)
Universe of Obligation (UK)
Reflect on how individuals, communities, and nations decide who has rights that are worthy of respect and protection with this introduction to the concept of the "universe of obligation".
![Integrated classroom listening to lecture.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Integrated_Classroom_at_Anacostia_High_School_Washington_DC.jpg?h=84d4f253&itok=A77sd2zj)
Universe of Obligation (en español)
Reflect on how individuals, communities, and nations decide who has rights that are worthy of respect and protection with this introduction to the concept of the "universe of obligation". This resource is in Spanish.
![Integrated classroom listening to lecture.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Integrated_Classroom_at_Anacostia_High_School_Washington_DC.jpg?h=84d4f253&itok=A77sd2zj)
We and They in Colonial America
Learn how race and racism evolved within North America’s first European settlements with the stories of two African Americans who secured freedom in colonial Virginia.
![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)
Benjamin Ferencz: Watcher of the Sky
This film focuses on Benjamin Ferencz, a former prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials who is dedicated to preventing mass atrocities.
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