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Facing History webclips are often used within the frame work of the Facing History scope and sequence.
| Addison B |  | Addison describes the ways in which his Facing History class helped him grow as a student, including a trip to a Civil Rights museum to learn about Rosa Parks.... |
| Adrianne B-Teacher |  | Adrianne describes how Facing History has helped her students grapple with the difficult questions involving their relationship to the world and what they can do to make a difference. She describes a... |
| Aida C. |  | Aida, a freshman from Tennessee, shares her personal story of fleeing genocide, and how Facing History helped her internalize the conflict in her own home country. My name is Aida. I am 15 years old ... |
| Alice B. |  | Alice explains the importance of Facing History in her classroom, and how it helps her students connect to history and allows them to express themselves about the past. Hello, my name is Alice and I ... |
| Anca L. |  | Anca explains how Facing History helped her realize that the 'differences' she sees in people are what make people individuals. Hi, my name is Anca. I am 17 years old and a student at Lake View High ... |
| Andrew K. |  | Andrew explains how Facing History taught him that one person who believes very strongly can make a difference, and can become change the way things are done. Hi, my name is Andrew. I'm an eighth gr... |
| Anthony Lewis |  | Anthony Lewis has been a reporter for The New York Times since 1969. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting: in 1955, for a series of articles in the Washington Daily News, and... |
| Arn Chorn Pond |  | Arn Chorn Pond is a survivor of the Cambodian Genocide and an internationally recognized human rights leader. Pond spent four years in a child labor camp in Cambodia, and was witness to the murder of... |
| Ashley W. S. |  | Ashley explains how her Facing History course broadened her view of her fellow classmates, and allowed her to see that everybody was unique in their own way. FULL: My name is Ashley. I am a sophomore... |
| Bea Gothelf |  | A member of Jackson's Jewish community, Bea Gothelf was involved with the Panel of American Women, a group of white and black women from Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish backgrounds who spoke up abou... |
| Benjamin Ferencz |  | Benjamin Ferencz is a peace activist and a distinguished international lawyer. He is professor emeritus of international law at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York, where he taught a course ent... |
| Beverly Daniel Tatum |  | Clinical psychologist Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D., is dean of the college and professor of psychology and of education at Mount Holyoke College. She focuses her research on the effects of racism on a... |
| Bill Moyers |  | Broadcast journalist Bill Moyers is also a publisher, editor, and producer of documentaries. During his 25 years in the media, Moyers has been executive editor of the highly acclaimed series, Bill Mo... |
| Bill Moyers on Facing History |  | I’ve known and admired Facing History and Ourselves for over 20 years. It’s an organization I believe in and a relationship that I value. I can think of no other educational organization that links... |
| Binet |  | Discusses the past of standardized tests and their realtion to the beginnings of the Eugenics movement.... |
| Carol Gilligan |  | World-renown psychologist and writer Carol Gilligan, Ph.D., is a pioneer in gender studies, with a particular interest in women's and girls' psychological and moral development. As the Patricia Albje... |
| Chicago Students |  | Chicago Students Confront Violence and Discrimination In 1993, Chicago students from diverse city and suburban junior high and high schools were brought together by Facing History and Ourselves to ta... |
| Chris V-Student |  | Chris talks about the impact his Facing History class as well as FH speaker Carl Wilkens has had on his view of the world. He explains that Carl Wilkens’ lessons on making a difference has made him ... |
| Confessions of a Hitler Youth |  | After growing up in Nazi Germany, an ex-memeber of the the Hitler Youth Organization explains the calculated national education program implemented to teach the youth racial prejudices.... |
| Congressman John Lewis |  | Congressman John Lewis Described as “One of the most courageous persons the Civil Rights Movement ever produced,” Congressman John Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing ... |
| Congressman John Lewis |  | Congressman John Lewis Described as “One of the most courageous persons the Civil Rights Movement ever produced,” Congressman John Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing ... |
| Daniel Schorr |  | For the last 25 years, Daniel Schorr, veteran television and radio correspondent, has been a senior news analyst for National Public Radio, contributing regularly to All Things Considered, Weekend Ed... |
| Dante G. |  | Hello, my name is Dante. . . I am 14 years old and last year I attended Dual Language Middle School in Manhattan. Last year, the killings at Littleton, Colorado (at Columbine High School) took place.... |
| David S. |  | I'm winding down my fifth and final year at Belmont Hill where I'm currently taking Facing History. I'm an editor and columnist for the newspaper as well as secretary of the school. I'm also organizi... |
| Deborah Prothrow-Stith |  | Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD, is a nationally recognized public health leader. She is associate dean for faculty development and professor of public health practice in the Department of Health Policy a... |
| Dr. Malik Mufti |  | In a panel on religious extremism, Dr. Malik Mufti, Political Science Professor at Tufts University, who specializes in the politics of the Middle East, breaks down responses Osama Bin Laden’s messa... |
| Dr. Malik Mufti |  | Professor Mufti, speaking from his own experiences during the Iranian hostage crisis and the experiences of his students, believes that the calls for tolerance, and warnings not to attack Muslims, in... |
| Dr. Malik Mufti |  | Dr. Mufti contrasts Arab values of manliness and chivalry with support for terrorism and the murder of innocent civilians.... |
| Dr. Marc Gopin |  | Dr. Gopin concludes his comments with the hope that in the United States can create a tolerant cultural space, respectful of all, that can serve as a bulwark against religious extremists.... |
| Dr. Marc Gopin |  | During a panel exploring religious extremism, Dr. Marc Gopin of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, who specializes in the potential of religion for both peace and violence, asks “How can demo... |
| Dr. Marc Gopin |  | Discussing the appeal of religious fundamentalism, Professor Gopin explains that many people feel alienated by the modern world and are seeking order and structure, even if it comes from a mythical p... |
| Dr. Martha Minow |  | Harvard Law Professor Martha Minow shares the story of an anti-American rally to explore the mystery of hate.... |
| Dr. Stephen Haynes |  | Stephen Haynes, Ph.D., is an associate professor and the Albert B. Curry Chair of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a member of the Tennessee Holocaust Commission and h... |
| Edith L. |  | Edith explains how Facing History helped her both to relate to history and to learn more about her classmates diversity. My name is Edith. I was born in Hungary. I moved to the United States two year... |
| Edith L. |  | Edith explains how Facing History helped her both to relate to history and to learn more about her classmates diversity. My name is Edith. I was born in Hungary. I moved to the United States two year... |
| Emily T. B. |  | Emily explains the impact of her Facing History course--especially the readings from Sonia Weitz's personal account of the Holocaust. My name is Emily. I’m sixteen and a sophomore at the Windsor Sch... |
| Eric G. |  | My name is Eric. I took Facing History…at the Center School in New York when I was in 8th grade. The message that came from my Facing History class was clear: all of us must speak out against injust... |
| Eve S. |  | The 'In' Group Here is Eve's honest and revealing reflection about her need to belong and how it affected the way she treated one of her classmates. From A Discussion with Elie Wiesel: Facing History... |
| Frank McRae |  | Frank McRae, former minister of St. John's United Methodist Church and a former member of the Memphis City Council, remained a friend to Mayor Loeb during the Sanitation Worker's Strike of 1968, yet ... |
| Galton Defense |  | A brief history on Francis Galton, the father of eugenics. This explains the importance Galton placed on blood and breeding, and the hereditary 'disorders' he felt needed to be weeded out.... |
| Galton Types |  | Explaining the genetic and blood-related traits that Galton was looking for in the different classes and races of Victorian England.... |
| Geoffrey Canada |  | Child and anti-violence advocate Geoffrey Canada grew up in tenement housing in New York’s South Bronx. After completing his graduate studies, Canada joined the staff of the Rheedlen Centers for Chi... |
| Germania S. |  | I team teach Facing History and Ourselves at Bogan High School. My teaching partner focuses on the history and I use literature to connect that history to the lives of our students. We use stories to... |
| Gillian Smith |  | Gillian Smith, principal of the Facing History School, explains that Facing History understands the connection between school and life and because of that understanding are able to better connect wit... |
| Gillian Smith 2 |  | Gillian gives her reasons why Facing History is so important. She says it understands that there needs to be a direct connection between school and community. She then shares a short story about an i... |
| Greg Alan Williams |  | GregAlan Williams is an award-winning stage and screen performer, writer and director who has spent many hours in Facing History classrooms across the country. He brings a message of non-violence, mu... |
| Haley R-Student |  | Haley talks about the struggles she faces as a Latina student in high school, and how learning about past prejudices in her Facing History class has helped her deal with the issue of personal identit... |
| Henry Friedlander |  | Rise of Nazism On the treatment of Jews in Europe before WW2. But by the middle/late part of the 19th century at least in central and western Europe, the Jews had gained emancipation, had gained equa... |
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |  | Henry Louis Gates, Jr., cultural critic and scholar in African American literature, is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities, chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies, and director ... |
| Hitler's Youth Movement |  | Hitler's Youth Movement German Youth played a major role in the rise of the Nazi party. The following reading introduces Alfons Heck. Heck, like many of his classmates, was eager to join Hitler Youth... |
| How Do You Become American? |  | Some Facing History students discuss how one becomes American, and how assimilation takes place gradually. Students debate whether one should assimilate in order to 'feel comfortable.'... |
| How Does it Relate To You? |  | How does one become American? Does speaking English make one American? Can one feel allegiance to more than one nationality?... |
| How Was This Experience For You? |  | The students discussing the effects of this Facing History lesson: 'I really like to hear about other people’s experiences, like the Chinese people talking on the tape. And they encourage me more to... |
| Irma Marzan |  | My name is Irma Marzan. I founded the Dual Language Middle School in New York City ten years ago. The school is on the upper west side of Manhattan. About half of the students come from homes where S... |
| Jamal R. |  | My name is Jamal. I’m in eighth grade at the Mott Hall School in Harlem. In my Facing History class, we were talking about what goes on in the minds of the Nazis who killed Jews during the Holocaust... |
| Jamarr J. |  | My name is Jamarr. I took a Facing History class in my junior year at Vanguard High School in Manhattan. In my Facing History and Ourselves class, I watched my classmates closely examine the way we s... |
| James Gilligan |  | James Gilligan, MD, is a lecturer in the department of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and president of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy, founded in 1991 to encourage... |
| Jesse B. |  | I grew up in a part of Boston called Jamaica Plain, attended Boston Latin High school, and I'm now a freshman at M.I.T. planning on majoring in Biology. Last year during my senior year at Boston Lati... |
| Joanne Bland |  | Joanne Bland is the director of the Voting Rights Museum in Selma. She was 11 years old when she participated, along with her 15 year old sister Lynda Lowery, in the march from Selma to Montgomery. J... |
| Jonathan R. |  | My name is Jonathan and I am an 11th grader at White Station High School in Memphis. White Station, though a very diverse school, like our own society, was also a very divided school when I first cam... |
| Jonathan V |  | Jonathan describes a special connection he made with a holocaust survivor through his Facing History class and what it meant to him.... |
| Jonathan V - Student |  | Jonathan discusses how his Facing History class helped him make connections with people in his life. He was able to connect more closely with his mother, someone with whom he had never had a great re... |
| Josh N. |  | My name is Josh. I took Facing History and Ourselves at Woodward Polyprep, an independent school in Brooklyn. At the end of the war, when Nazi war criminals were being held accountable for their acti... |
| Julien |  | Former Los Angeles public school students relate how early, high-stakes tests determined their tracking throughout their educational careers.... |
| Justice Richard Goldstone |  | Justice Richard Goldstone of the South African Constitutional Court and Chairman of the Independent Inquiry on Kosovo, puts the September 11th attacks in the context of the escalating attacks on inno... |
| Kamara J. |  | Hi, my name is Kamara, and I took Facing History last year at P.S.3 in New York City’s Greenwich Village, although I live in Queens. Facing History brought art into our classroom. Not just as someth... |
| Karen H. |  | My name is Karen. I’m 13 years old. I took Facing History and Ourselves last year. In class, one of the things that I found hard to understand was why ordinary people went along with the Nazis. I fo... |
| Kofi Annan |  | Kofi Annan began his term as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations in January of 1997. In this position, he has focused on strengthening the United Nations’ work for peace and developm... |
| LaCoya K. |  | My name is LaCoya. I am a senior at Germantown High School in Memphis. Perhaps one of the most difficult challenges I continue to face is often being the only black student in the classroom, and ofte... |
| Lawrence Fuchs |  | Lawrence Fuchs, founder of the American Studies Department and the Meyer and Walter Jaffe Professor of American Civilization and Politics at Brandeis University, has contributed greatly to the study ... |
| Leon Bass |  | Leon Bass is a former high school principal and veteran of World War II. As a Facing History resource speaker, Bass tells students, teachers, and community members about his life in the segregated so... |
| Leon Bass |  | Dr. Leon Bass, a former history teacher and principal at Benjamin Franklin High School in Philadelphia, speaks to Facing History classrooms about his experiences as a black American soldier in World ... |
| Lincoln School |  | Join NBC's The Today Show, as they visit teacher Pat Stanley's Facing History classroom at the Lincoln School in Brookline, MA. (1993)... |
| Lisa Krakow |  | My name is Lisa. I am 35 years old and I live in Los Angeles. I was a student in the very first Facing History class. Today, I am a lawyer. I practice employment discrimination, and therefore I strug... |
| Luis Rodriguez |  | Luiz Rodriguez, a professional in conflict resolution speaks on the importance of the Facing History curriculum in public schools.... |
| Lynda Lowery |  | Lynda Lowery turned fifteen years old during the Selma to Montgomery march. She was arrested fifteen (15) times over the years in which she participated in the civil rights movement. Lynda describes ... |
| Matt Damon CTP |  | Matt Damon speaks about the importance of Facing History's work with students.... |
| Matt Damon FHAO PSA |  | Matt Damon explains the importance of Facing History's curriculum to students.... |
| Maya Angelou |  | Maya Angelou is an actor, author, activist, educator, and poet. She is the author of over ten best-selling books including a five-volume autobiographical series—the first of which, I Know Why the Ca... |
| Michael MacDonald |  | Michael MacDonald is a peace activist in Massachusetts. Growing up in South Boston’s Old Colony housing project, MacDonald lost three of his brothers to drugs, organized crime, and suicide. His moth... |
| Morton History Clip |  | Explaining the evolution of Samuel Morton's ideas and why they found an audience in 19th century America.... |
| Morton Polygenesis |  | Explaining Samuel Morton's idea of 'polygenesis,' or the belief that the different people's of the world come from different origins.... |
| Nechama Tec |  | Born in Lublin Poland, in 1931 to Roman Bawnik, a businessman, and Esther (Hachamoff) Bawnik, Nechama lived for three years during World War II under an assumed Christian identity. With the aid of Ca... |
| Not With Tanks and Guns |  | Not With Tanks and Guns How did Adolph Hitler rise to power? As Germania Solorzano suggests, it was not with 'tanks and guns,' but with a powerful message that capitalized on the emotions and beliefs... |
| Packer Collegiate Institute |  | Join WNET, as they film a Facing History classroom at the Packer Collegiate Institute in New York City. (1997)... |
| Patrice J. |  | My name is Patrice and I am a senior at Bogan High School in Chicago. In my school, a lot of kids self-segregate. We seem to split up into our own groups. Lunch really shows this. The Chinese kids go... |
| Peter Balakian |  | Peter Balakian, an author of a book on the Armenenian genocide, shares what it was like growing up Armenian in the times after the genocide.... |
| Professor Anthony Appiah |  | K. Anthony Appiah, Ph.D., is currently on the faculty at Princeton University. Previously, he was professor of Afro-American studies and of philosophy and chair of the Committee on African Studies at... |
| Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela |  | Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is a psychologist from South Africa, where she was a community and clinical social worker before she became a clinical psychologist in 1984. In 1991, after teaching for 7 year... |
| Randall Kennedy |  | Randall Kennedy is a professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches courses on contracts, freedom of expression, and the regulation of race relations. He is a member of the American Law Institute ... |
| Raquel F. |  | My name is Raquel. I came to this country from Brazil four years ago. We studied Facing History last year at International High School. Sometimes school in Brazil was like sitting in a classroom with... |
| Raquel F. |  | Raquel explains how the Facing History curriculum affects its students for the rest of their lives.... |
| Raul Hilberg |  | Renown Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Vermont, where he taught courses on international relations, American foreign policy, and the Hol... |
| Rena Finder |  | Holocaust survivor Rena Finder was born in Krakow, Poland in 1929. Ten years later, German troops invaded Poland and Finder’s simple life began to change. First, there were restrictions of the econo... |
| Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth |  | Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth is the founder and leader of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. The organization was formed in 1956 after the Alabama attoney gen... |
| Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth |  | Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth is the founder and leader of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. The organization was formed in 1956 after the Alabama attoney gen... |
| Reverend Lamar Weaver |  | Reverend Lamar Weaver Rev. Weaver was one of the few white clergyman in Birmingham who came to the support of Rev. Shuttlesworth during the Civil Rights movement. He came under attack and was badly b... |
| Reverend Lamar Weaver |  | 'God forgive me for ever hating this man.' Rev. Weaver speaks about visiting segregationist Bull Connors' grave and the healing process.... |
| Reverend Lamar Weaver |  | Reverend Lamar Weaver Rev. Weaver was one of the few white clergyman in Birmingham who came to the support of Rev. Shuttlesworth during the Civil Rights movement. He came under attack and was badly b... |
| Richard Hovannisian |  | Richard Hovannisian is professor of history and associate director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. A member of the UCLA faculty since 1962, he hol... |
| Richard J. Goldstone |  | Richard J. Goldstone is a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, which has been trusted with the task of interpreting the new South African Constitution and supervising the country’s t... |
| Romeo Dallaire |  | Romeo Dallaire explains ways of preventing genocide in developing countries and the struggle to move towards democracy.... |
| Romeo Dallaire 2 |  | Romeo Dallaire asks questions involving the importance of human life and the obvious (to him) worldwide perception that people of some races are more important that others.... |
| Romeo Dallaire 3 |  | Romeo Dallaire talks about international intervention in situations of crisis and the need for recognition of situations of human rights violations by organizations like the UN.... |
| Sandy S. |  | Sandy Simpson, a Facing History teacher at Dorchester (MA) High School, spoke at the 2002 New England Benefit Dinner. An edited transcript of her remarks, corresponding to the videoclip on this page,... |
| Sarah Zimmerman |  | My day begins before 7am. I teach five classes of Unites States history to eleventh grade sixteen and seventeen year olds at Germantown High School. My name is Sarah Zimmerman. Like anyone, in the sa... |
| Sherri McDonald |  | Sherri McDonald discusses her son’s “awakening” and how Facing History helped push him and other students in his class to look at history from a more personal level.... |
| Sonia Schreiber Weitz |  | Sonia Schreiber Weitz: Survivor With a Poet's Eye. A Holocaust educator and survivor of five Nazi concentration camps, Sonia Schreiber Weitz of Peabody, Massachusetts is often called 'a survivor with... |
| Sonia Schreiber Weitz |  | Sonia Schreiber Weitz is a Holocaust and Jewish-Christian relations educator who survived five Nazi concentration camps, in which she and her sister lost the other 84 members of their family. Sonia w... |
| Student Poem |  | Three high school students wrote poems about thier ancestral identities in the United States.... |
| Susan McCray |  | Kathy Greely and I teach humanities to 7th and 8th graders together at the Graham and Parks School. When we use the Facing History frame - from addressing issues of identity, to studying the history ... |
| Tala M. |  | Hi. I’m Tala. I’m 16 years old. As I was growing up, one of the clichés echoed to me by my parents was: “Appearance doesn’t matter, it’s what’s inside that counts.” It seemed redundant and mun... |
| Then K. |  | My name is Then. I am 17 years old and a junior at Revere High School in Massachusetts. I came to the US from Cambodia in 1984… I was only two or three years old when something horrible happened to ... |
| Unita Blackwell |  | Unita Blackwell describes her experiences with racism and the questions of faith they raised in her.... |
| Veronica Casado-Hasslund |  | I'm Veronica Casado-Hasslund. It took Irma, my principal, three years to finally get me to attend a Facing History and Ourselves Institute. When I agreed, it was partly because I knew my colleagues, ... |
| What Does it Mean to Be American? |  | What does it mean to be American? Is it onle being born in America? Can one keep one's ancestral identity and still feel American? Must one conform to the image of an 'American?'... |
| William Johnston |  | A nationally known expert on identifying and investigating hate crimes, Johnston retired from the Boston Police Department as deputy superintendent in 1997, the year in which he was selected to recei... |
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