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Dates: August 16-18, 2021 Join us for a 3-day online professional learning institute for history teachers in grades 6-12, Holocaust Testimony and Historical Comparisons: Race and Second-Class Citizenship in Nazi Germany and Prewar United States. Each day, we will meet for a 3-hour interactive online session, complemented by 2-hours of self-paced asynchronous study. Upon completion, participants will receive Yale’s Fortunoff Video Archive Certificate of Participation for 15 hours of professional learning, and they will be invited to teach with curricular materials from the institute during the 2021/22 school year. There is no cost for participating teachers. Registration deadline: August 9, 2021 Focus: To make sense of the past and their own moment in time, students need to engage in historical inquiry and interpretation. They need to learn how to analyze primary sources, examine historical narratives, and make careful historical comparisons that emphasize both differences and similarities across contexts. Our practice-oriented institute will explore teaching historical inquiry and research skills to middle school and high school students, using materials from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. We will analyze the testimonies of Martin Schiller, other survivors, and Leon Bass, an African American soldier who arrived at Buchenwald in April 1945, […]