History
All Articles about History
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Space & Memory: The Presence of Jewish Absence in Poland's Contemporary Landscape
Humanity in Action Senior Fellows Łukasz Posłuszny, Michelle Shofet, and Marissa Sophie Schneiderman created this project, sought to re-conceptualize the ways of remembering the war and the Holocaust, and to discuss social aesthetics of monuments and alternative forms of memory in the context of trauma, and on the other hand it also promoted tolerance among young people and a desire to fight anti-Semitism.
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My 100 Hundred Days Plan
My One Hundred Days Plans was a civic action campaign encouraging participants to take one action every day for one hundred days to directly counteract Donald Trump’s first hundred days in office.
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Books4Vijećnica
The project helped restock the University of Sarajevo library with contemporary works in a range of disciplines and in a number of languages.
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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.
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Indigenous Corps of Discovery
Indigenous Corps of Discovery introduced society to the US Presidential history like never before. Through truth-telling tours of the Presidential Portrait Gallery at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, people experience the silenced indigenous history of US presidents.
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Delta Collaborative: TIMESHIP #39
A time-traveling mobile environmental museum with exhibits to educate on environmental threats and inspire change
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Theresienstadt - Danish Children in Nazi Captivity
A documentary film and interactive, educational website with teaching materials and ideas for incorporating first-hand accounts into Danish World War II education.
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Path to Asylum
Senior Fellow Rachel Salcedo and Daniel McElroy designed a virtual experience, Path to Asylum, as an online resource simulating the experience of seeking asylum in the U.S. and providing context on that nuances of the subject to users.
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Excavating Atlanta: A Podcast Series
Senior Fellow Virginia Spinks created Excavating Atlanta, a podcast series which explores the history and residual effects of structural inequality in the City of Atlanta.
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Bursting Bubbles to Save Black Lives
Senior Fellow Tasneem Maner led a dialogue workshop exploring Black Lives Matter. The twist: the audience was all Muslim. The goal: create ally-ship between minorities.
