Facing History and Ourselves introduces its first book in the Making History Series. Created for classroom use, this groundbreaking volume highlights the story of Raphael Lemkin, a lawyer of Polish-Jewish decent who, driven by a sense of moral duty and outraged by injustice, helped to facilitate the establishment of the Genocide Convention, and set out guidelines for the international prevention and punishment for the crime of genocide. After studying the massacres of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Lemkin struggled to find a way to use the law to prevent collective violence. To support his legal arguments, Lemkin coined the word 'genocide' in 1943. How did a new word change the way that people thought about a problem? Totally Unofficial explores the spectacular history of one man's work, and an international community's need to continue in his footsteps.

Totally Unofficial: Raphael Lemkin And The Genocide Convention (The Making History Series)

Dan Eshet

History

Facing History and Ourselves

In a time when debates about national identity and integration have taken on increased urgency, Facing History and Ourselves introduces, Identity and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain. This timely resource gives students and teachers a greater understanding of identity, membership, citizenship, and belonging in the UK. It reveals experiences of newcomers and the dilemmas surrounding immigration from the individual to the collective through memoirs, journalistic accounts, and interviews. Identity and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain is a critical and relevant resource for British educators in schools and other organizations that are addressing the duty to promote community cohesion. This is also an important resource for political science, sociology, education and religious studies courses at the university level. Features include:15 readings that explore religion, migration, integration, and national identities; Personal narratives from Billy Bragg, Theodore Dalrymple, Sarfraz Manzoor, and others; and Connection Questions at the end of each reading to encourage classroom discussion.

Identity and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain

Facing History, And Ourselves

Europe

A Convenient Hatred chronicles a very particular hatred through powerful stories that allow readers to see themselves in the tarnished mirror of history. It raises important questions about the consequences of our assumptions and beliefs and the ways we, as individuals and as members of a society, make distinctions between us and them, right and wrong, good and evil. These questions are both universal and particular.

A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism

Goldstein, Phyllis

Americas

Harold Evans

Phyllis Goldstein

Sacred Texts, Modern Questions: Connecting Ethics and History Through a Jewish Lens is a resource designed specifically for educators in a Jewish setting. This five unit collection of lessons explores sacred texts of the past and the questions that shape our present. It makes connections between instances of moral courage in Pharaoh's Egypt, struggles of conscience and faith in Hitler's Europe, and readings from today's influential thinkers. Our goal is to integrate original Facing History resources with biblical, rabbinic, and contemporary Jewish sources. With more than 30 readings, pages of full-color artwork, and a variety of classroom strategies, activities, and questions, Sacred Texts provides opportunities for teachers of both Judaic and general studies to integrate learning and encourages interdisciplinary conversations.

Sacred Texts, Modern Questions

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

This guide provides teachers with research, testimony, and discussion ideas to help them foster honest and informed classroom dialogue about the issues raised in the documentary film Bully.

A Guide to the Film BULLY

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Teaching Mockingbird presents educators with the materials they need to transform how they teach Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Interweaving the historical context of Depression-era rural Southern life, and informed by Facing History’s pedagogical approach, this resource introduces layered perspectives and thoughtful strategies into the teaching of To Kill a Mockingbird.
This teacher’s guide provides English language arts teachers with student handouts, close reading exercises, and connection questions that will push students to build a complex understanding of the historical realities, social dynamics, and big moral questions at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird. Following Facing History’s scope and sequence, students will consider the identities of the characters, and the social dynamics of the community of Maycomb, supplementing their understanding with deep historical exploration. They will consider challenging questions about the individual choices that determine the outcome of Tom Robinson’s trial, and the importance of civic participation in the building a more just society.
Teaching Mockingbird uses Facing History’s guiding lens to examine To Kill a Mockingbird, offering material that will enhance student’s literary skills, moral growth, and social development.

Teaching Mockingbird

Teen & Young Adult

The Reconstruction Era and The Fragility of Democracy uses our pedagogical approach to help students examine how a society rebuilds after extraordinary division and trauma, when the ideals of democracy are most vulnerable. The unit presents educators with materials they need to engage students in a deep study of the pivotal era of American history that followed the Civil War. It provides history teachers with dozens of primary and secondary source documents, close reading exercises, lesson plans, and activity suggestions that will push students both to build a complex understanding of the dilemmas and conflicts Americans faced during Reconstruction and to identify the legacies of this history that extended through the 20th century to the present day. These materials will help students examine closely themes such as historical memory, justice, and civic participation in a democracy. The unit includes a variety of interdisciplinary teaching strategies that reinforce historical and literacy skills.

The Reconstruction Era and The Fragility of Democracy

George Washington’s 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, a foundational document in the history of religious freedom in the United States, embodies a vision of religious harmony that remains deeply pertinent in our increasingly diverse society. In Washington’s Rebuke to Bigotry, scholars from across the disciplines use the letter as a springboard to engage with important and timely questions regarding religious freedom, religious diversity, and civic identity. 
Washington’s Rebuke to Bigotry introduces readers to the complexities of the historical moment in which Washington wrote the letter, when America’s founding leaders were negotiating how the new democracy would approach religious difference. Many essays in this collection also bring the spirit of Washington’s letter into the present, reflecting on contemporary issues such as gay rights in the United States, restrictions on religious practice in the public sphere in European countries, and the place of religion in education.

Washington's Rebuke to Bigotry: Reflections on Our First President's Famous 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation In Newport, Rhode Island

Holocaust and Human Behavior leads students through an examination of the history of the Holocaust, while fostering their skills in ethical reasoning, critical thinking, empathy, and civic engagement. By focusing on the choices of individuals who experienced this history--through primary sources, eyewitness testimonies, personal reflections, poetry, and images-- students are given a lens to thoughtfully examine the universal themes and questions about human behavior inherent in a study of the Holocaust. Students are also prompted to draw connections between history and the world today. Holocaust and Human Behavior has been fully revised in 2017 to reflect the latest scholarship on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, as well as incorporate new research from the fields of neuroscience and the psychology of bias and prejudice. This edition also features a new chapter on World War I. In this edition you ll find a wealth of new materials to support your teaching, including more than 200 readings, maps, historical photographs, visual essays, and video and lesson plan recommendations.

Holocaust and Human Behavior

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Totally Unofficial: Raphael Lemkin And The Genocide Convention (The Making History Series)

Identity and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain

A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism

A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism

Sacred Texts, Modern Questions

A Guide to the Film BULLY

Teaching Mockingbird

The Reconstruction Era and The Fragility of Democracy

Washington's Rebuke to Bigotry: Reflections on Our First President's Famous 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation In Newport, Rhode Island

Holocaust and Human Behavior