We the People in the United States
Learn how the US Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the law has been questioned throughout US history in debates over issues such as women's right to vote and birthright citizenship.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Learn about the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Eleanor Roosevelt’s role in its creation.
Visual Essay: Holocaust Memorials and Monuments
Study various memorials and monuments and reflect on the ways in which we choose to remember history.
Acknowledging the Past to Shape the Present
Learn about two initiatives aimed at confronting past violence and reflect on how facing the past can help shape a better future.
Acknowledging the Past to Shape the Present (en español)
Learn about two initiatives aimed at confronting past violence and reflect on how facing the past can help shape a better future. This resource is in Spanish.
Finding a Voice in Art
Explore how Chilean women used folk art to heal and advocate for justice in the wake of human rights abuses by General Pinochet’s dictatorship.
Open-Source Participation
Learn about how bloggers and activists in Kenya used technology to respond to violence after a contested election in 2008.
Anti-Judaism before the Enlightenment
Deepen your understanding of the history of antisemitism with this overview of the persecution, violence, and restrictions Jews throughout Europe faced during the Middle Ages.
Anti-Judaism before the Enlightenment (en español)
Deepen your understanding of the history of antisemitism with this overview of the persecution, violence, and restrictions Jews throughout Europe faced during the Middle Ages. This resource is in Spanish.
Breeding Society’s "Fittest"
Learn how people in the late nineteenth-century used race science, social Darwinism, and eugenics to justify their ideas about membership.
Creating the German Nation
Read about the confluence of nationalism, race science, and German-unification efforts in mid-eighteenth-century German society.