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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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Roadblocks to Jewish Restitution: Poland’s Unsettled Property
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The Last Day My Father Spent in Mexico
2015 John Lewis Fellow Antonio Lopez writes a poem on his father's last day in Mexico before immigrating to the United States.
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Las Chácharas they Carried
Read Fellow Antonio Lopez's latest poem, "Las Chácharas they Carried".
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Las Chácharas I Carried (Translated from the Mexican)
Read John Lewis Fellow Antonio Lopez's latest poem Las Chácharas I Carried (Translated from the Mexican).
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How to Fix Democracy with Richard Stengel
"For democracy to work, there needs to be informed citizens... what is different now is the universality and instantaneousness of disinformation."
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The Week Before the Election
In the midst of these past months of anguish, John Robert Lewis and Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. Ever vigilant, they left parting words to accompany their legacies of determination and courage to make their country ever more just.
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'Stories From the Unity of the Realm' - Episode 2: 'What is Kaffemik?'
What is a traditional Greenlandic 'Kaffemik'? Find out by listening to 2020 Fellows Malik, Mika, and Noémi's contribution to the Podcast Series with the episode 'What is Kaffemik?'.
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'Stories From the Unity of the Realm' - Episode 3: 'Colonial Copenhagen'
Learn more about Copenhagen's colonial past in this episode made by the 2020 CPH Fellows Malthe, Nanna, and Patricia for the CPH 2020 Fellowship Podcast Series.
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.