Facing History shares on Dr. Gholdy Muhammad's work which explores how literacy came to be regarded as a critically important lever of social and political transformation within the Black community.
Facing History invites educators to weave poetry into classroom instruction using four of our teaching resources to shed light on historical and contemporary experiences and to help students process their own identities and emotions.
Civic Agency and The Pursuit of Democracy: Teaching Civics through History
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New York, NY
Registration for this event is now closed. In this 3-day in-person seminar, teachers will receive tools and resources to teach a civics elective using the legacies of history to explore the strengths and challenges of our democracy today. This event will be held in-person.
Students analyze a short story by Misa Sugiura to consider the invisible barriers that divide “in” and “out” groups and how our efforts to seek belonging can conflict with our values.
In 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois published an influential book titled Black Reconstruction in America. This audio excerpt, from a chapter titled “The Propaganda of History,” questions the ways in which Reconstruction was being studied and taught at the time.