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Why You Should Ask Your Family Questions About The Past
The past is like the present and the future, far from rigid. It is ever-changing and always moving depending on the perspective of the narrator. In school I was taught about history in a standardized and fixed way, learning so-called key moments and key figures. Which moments and figures do we consider key when learning about history?
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Courage to Care
The new short film Courage to Care reveals the impact and artistry of the Museum’s exhibition on the Rescue of Jews in Denmark during the Holocaust. Featuring interviews, exhibition footage, photographic portraits and striking locations, the film beautifully conveys the moral clarity of Denmark’s Holocaust history in our fraught contemporary moment.
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How to Fix Democracy with Jill Watts
Season 5, Episode 8, features Jill Watts, author of The Black Cabinet, who shares the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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How to Fix Democracy with Paul Sparrow
Season 5, Episode 5 of How to Fix Democracy features writer and historical consultant Paul Sparrow, who, together with Host Andrew Keen, delves into the deep complexities of the 32nd U.S. President who employed the powerful resources of his mind and personality.
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How to Fix Democracy with Derek Leebaert
Episode 4, Season 5, of How to Fix Democracy features author and historian Derek Leebaert who provides a revisionist account of President Franklin Roosevelt and four members of his Cabinet.
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How to Fix Democracy with Robert Kagan
Episode 3, Season 5, of How to Fix Democracy features Robert Kagan, the distinguished Brookings Institute scholar of foreign policy, and discusses America’s dramatically changing place in the world during the Twenties and Thirties.
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How to Fix Democracy with Adam Hochschild
The first episode of Season 5 features Adam Hochschild - historian, journalist, and award-winning author of “American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis." Hochschild takes us on a journey to America in the aftermath of World War I – a country divided by labor strife, xenophobic fear of immigrants, and massive violations of civil rights.
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Interview with Humanity in Action Founder Dr. Judith Goldstein
In March 2023, we spoke with Humanity in Action Founder Judith Goldstein in New York about her 26 years leading the organization, Humanity in Action's place in the democracy and human rights movement, and what she hopes to see Humanity in Action accomplish as it moves into the future.
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How to Fix Democracy with Michael Thorning
Season 4, Episode 10 of How to Fix Democracy features Michael Thorning, Director of Governance at the Bipartisan Policy Center. In this episode, he joins host Andrew Keen to discuss the implications for the current and upcoming voting rights legislation, as well as the need for bipartisanship in order to defend democracy in the United States.
Humanity in Action Press
Discover some of the publications from our in-house publisher:
On People with Disabilities
What would happen if Hermione Granger was a girl with a disability? Why is disability is rarely discussed in terms of diversity? Who are people with disabilities?
Pre-Genocide - Warnings and Readiness to Protect
An anthology of personal interpretations, by researchers and writers, about alarm bells and the readiness to protect prior to genocides. The essays in this volume focus on the 1930s before the Holocaust in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark - as well as the years before the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Kurdistan, Rwanda and Bosnia.
Shifting Paradigms: Humanity in Action Senior Fellows on Policy and Pluralism Across Borders
Shifting Paradigms is a volume of diverse articles on cross-border policy and pluralism written by Humanity in Action Senior Fellows.
Two Trees in Jerusalem
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity
Recognizing the intensification of transnational conflicts that both violently divide and intimately link our global communities, this book is a collection of diverse essays, which tackle international relations and migration.
Reflections on the Holocaust
The first book published by Humanity in Action, Reflections on the Holocaust is a collection of essays from Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members and lecturers from 1997 to 2010.