"Building Movements & Affecting Change" - Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT and principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, delivers a talk at Fac...
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Facing History and Ourselves is an organization created in 1976 by educators who believed that instilling intellectual vigor and curiosity goes hand-in-hand with teaching facts and figures....
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20 of 21 episodes"Honor and Social Change": Anthony Appiah
Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University and Chair of the Facing History Board of Scholars, delivers a talk at...
"Contesting" Evil - Jon Sawyer
Jon Sawyer, founding Director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves' Day of Learning:...
"Contextualizing" Evil - Jeffrey Burds
Jeffrey Burds, professor of History at Northeastern University, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves' Day of Learning: Confrontin...
"Norming" Evil - Luis Moreno Ocampo
Luis Moreno Ocampo, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves' Day of Lea...
"Norming" Evil - Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels, Professor of Religion at Princeton University, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves' Day of Learning: Confronting...
Understanding Evil - Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Assistant Professor of Education, Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, delivers...
Responses to Evil Through History - Kwame Anthony Appiah
Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy at New York University, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves' Day of Learning: Confrontin...
Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine
Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine describes her experience during the first days of integration at Central High School.
The Ethics of Diversity - Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah from Princeton University describes the three basic principles of ethics and applies them to personal and group identit...
Navigating Race in a Post-Racial Society - Deborah Plummer
Deborah Plummer, a psychologist from the Univ. of Massachusetts discusses how humans must navigate a variety of obstacles, including basic s...
Making All the Difference – American Law's Treatment of Race and Identities
Martha Minow, dean of the Harvard Law School, delivers a talk titled "Making All the Difference – American Law's Treatment of Race and...
Nationalism and Violence
Omer Bartov, a historian from Brown University, delivers a talk titled "Nationalism and Violence" as part of Facing History's Day of Learnin...
Genetic (Mis)understandings: The Modern Science of Human Difference - David Jones
David Jones, a Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University, delivers a talk titled "Genetic (Mis)understandings – The M...
Diffusing Bias - Binna Kandola
Binna Kandola, a psychologist and diversity scholar from Leeds University, delivers a talk titled "Diffusing Bias" as part of Facing History...
What Does Neuroscience Suggest About Prejudice: Michael Inzlicht
Michael Inzlicht, a psychologist from the University of Toronto, delivers a talk titled "What Does Neuroscience Suggest About Prejudice" as...
Daniel Goldhagen on the Challenges of Confronting Antisemitism
Genocide scholar and author Daniel Goldhagen discusses the history of antisemitism and its relevance today. Facing History's Doc Miller conc...
John Lewis on the Importance of Working Together
Congressman and civil rights movement veteran John Lewis speaks about the responsibility of citizens in a democracy.
Migration and Belonging
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, John R. Bowen, and Sir Keith Ajegbo explore how migration is changing the way individuals, groups, and nations...
The Legacies of the Little Rock Nine
In this podcast, we explore the legacies of public school integration in the United States as seen through the eyes of Jessica Green, daught...