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Two new books to nourish and support educators through mindfulness practice.
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History Unfolded is an innovative project from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to learn and contribute to research.
“History Unfolded asks people across the United States to research particular Holocaust-era events in their own local newspapers. Some of these papers are available online, and others are available on microfilm in libraries and archives. While scholars have written extensively about coverage by major newspapers about the Holocaust, the reporting of local papers has not been heavily studied. As a result, the database into which participants (students, teachers, life-long learners) upload these articles will inform both the development of the new special exhibition and research for scholars in the future. Already, a few articles from citizen historians have made their way onto the story boards for the new exhibition.”
Learn more & participate:
- Listen to his inspiring interview on compassion, how the heart and mind are connected, and his work.
- Get the book!
- James Doty is a clinical professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and founding director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. He is the author of Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart.
- Check out the Empathy Library: “The Empathy Library is the world’s first online empathy collection and a treasure house for catapulting your imagination into other people’s lives. What might it be like to be a child growing up in Tehran, or to be born without sight, or to be a soldier fighting someone else’s war? The library takes you on these journeys into unknown worlds.”
- Visit the Empathy Museum: What is the museum? Why do we need it? Who is behind it?
- Read the book: Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It
When British and American troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps in the spring of 1945, film teams documented the experience.
Hitchcock was also involved in this work, but the project was “abandoned and shelved for 70 years because it was deemed too politically sensitive.”