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Culture & Identity
Gay Life Under Nazi Rule: The Legacy of Paragraph 175
Students watch survivor testimony from the documentary Paragraph 175 and engage in purposeful reflection about the survivors’ important stories.
![Nazi's standing outside of a building](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-05/1103.jpg?h=2a25a39c&itok=OZxbHBB3)
Indigenous Resistance, Resilience and Resurgence: The Role of Activism
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Toronto, CA
Experience a holistic day of learning that brings together Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee stories, art, spoken word, connection to land, language rights and activism. This event will be hosted in-person.
![Quote reading "Power presents are and design works that reclaim the word’s primary associations with capitalism, state capitalism, colonialism, and neocolonial. The exhibiting artists and designers use their stirring creative practices to reposition the meaning of power as a strength grounded in respectful relationships, nonbinary worldviews, and emotional intelligence, embedded within practices of decolonization, Indigenization and other meaningful methods that decenter, Eurocentric, Western worldviews"](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-05/IMG_1676.jpg?h=1f8cbfdf&itok=QVBDbBIo)
Nine YA Reading Recs for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Celebrate AAPI coming-of-age stories with this list of YA fiction and non-fiction titles curated by Facing History staff.
![Asian American teen surrounded by creatively stacked library books](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-05/Asian%20American%20teen%20surrounded%20by%20creatively%20stacked%20library%20books%20%28FH2205785%29.jpg?h=6892065b&itok=O-hCcDYt)
Expressing Diversity in Jewish Identity: Blending In and Standing Out
This two-day lesson uses the story of Purim as a frame to examine how Jews have preserved and protected their identities and culture in dominant societies by choosing when to blend in and when to stand out.
![A Jewish family pictured in Yemen](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-03/GettyImages-607446350.jpg?h=eec5a94e&itok=ZTRvXmoY)
Borders & Belonging
This modular ELA collection for grades 7–12 invites students to explore the complicated world of belonging and the tangible and intangible borders that shape it.
Introducing Our New Borders & Belonging Collection
Explore our second thematic teaching collection created for middle and high school ELA classrooms.
![Facing History students bent over working on scattered poster board together](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-04/Facing-History_SJLA_218.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=EjaD0AQD)
Honoring Arab American Heritage, Stories, and Changemakers
Explore the history of Arab people in the United States and how they have shaped American culture and society.
![Arab American Heritage Month banner](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-04/Arab%20American%20Heritage%20Month.%20banner.jpeg?h=d7fe13a8&itok=6OBGoe7J)
Teaching Coming-of-Age Literature
Facing History explores examples of coming-of-age literature and its connection to our resources.
![Close up of male hand open book and reading.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-04/finger_points_book_reading.jpeg?h=140710cd&itok=Tq3cNmxF)
A Conversation with Dr. Kimberly Parker on Movements to Create More Readers
Facing History speaks with Dr. Kimberly Parker, co-founder of #DisruptTexts.
![Dr. Kimberly Parker sits in front of a bookshelf during an interview.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-04/kimberly_parker.jpeg?h=08f15304&itok=Sz9d-TXz)
Embrace SEL and Trauma Informed Teaching This Year
Facing History explores the meaning and mechanics of trauma-informed teaching.
![Five stick figures stand together with one thought bubble filled with hearts.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-04/community_love_iStock-504237291.jpeg?h=140710cd&itok=zcowQa5B)
Reflections on the State of Democracy in South Africa
Facing History partners share the key lessons learned after the events that preceded Mandela Day in July 2021.
![South Africa flag waving during the sunrise with mist fog.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-04/South_Africa_flag_sun_iStock-1060045112.jpeg?h=140710cd&itok=hv6bvGp9)