Resources for Facing History
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Thank you for you interest in Facing History and Ourselves. Here is a list of materials used to create this site. We hope that you will use them to learn more about how we can help influence the next generation of social justice workers.
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News Articles
- Helping Students Face History Click here to read about how a teacher in California observed positive changes in her classroom after using Facing History
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2002/2002_09_18.history18.html
- Breaking the Silence Click here to read about how Facing History helped "break the silence" in a classroom allowing students to have productive discussions about race realations in the United States
http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0312le1.htm
- Eugenics in MA Click here to read about one more reason Facing History is necessary. This article describes a eugenics program administered in Massachusetts in 1928!
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/special1/eugenics_1202.shtml
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Websites
- Facing History and Ourselves
http://www,facing.org
- Facing History and Ourselves: On-line Classroom Click here to access all of Facing History's on-line resources including upcoming events and teacher trainings
http://www.facinghistorycampus.org
- Facing History and Ourselves: On-line Lessons Click here to go straight to the on-line lessons
http://www.facinghistorycampus.org/campus/reslib.nsf/newbieresources?openform
- South Africa Partners Click here to learn more about South Africa and programs creating productive partnerships between the United States and South Africa
http://www.sapartners.org
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Organizations
Here is a list of organizations invloved in work similar to Facing History but for a more complete list of social justice organizations please visit: Organizations.
- Educators for Social Responsibility
23 Garden Street
Cambridge,MA 02138
(800) 370-2515
Web site: www.esrnational.org
- Teaching Tolerance
400 Washington Ave.
Montgomery, AL 36104
(334) 264-0286
Web site: www.splcenter.org
- A World of Difference Institute
The Anti-Defamation League
823 United Nations Plaza
New York,NY 10017
(212) 885-7800
Web site: www.adl.org
- History Through Hip Hop
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Web site: www.epamap.org