ethnic relations

Provides an overview of eleven ongoing historical and political controversies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with extensive background information, hypothetical positions, and a "Questions and Activities" section.

The untold story of the Ya'mas, Israel's special forces undercover team that infiltrated Palestinian terrorist strongholds during the al-Aqsa, the Second Intifada, which began in late 2000.

A memoir of Elli Friedmann in which she tells about her experiences at Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was taken at the age of thirteen in 1944, when the Nazis invaded her native Hungary.

Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on the friendship.

Diplomats, journalists, and survivors reflect on the 1994 Rwandaan genocide--a state-sponsored massacre of nearly one million Tutsis by Hutu extremists, discussing the actions and inactions of the international community in response to the tragedy.

The reminiscences of Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family in Amsterdam during the Second World War, presents a vivid story of life under Nazi occupation.

A true account of a Japanese American family's internment during World War II.

A history of the Holocaust from 1933 to 1938 told from the Jewish perspective through period documents, annotations, and black-and-white photographs.

Biographies of major civil rights figures, including sidebars covering related events and issues.