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Best of SAPIENS 2024

Sapiens

Human Rights How Israeli Prisons Terrorize PalestiniansInside and Outside Their Walls By Basil Farraj An anthropologist in the West Bank explains how Israels prison regime dehumanizes Palestinians, who nevertheless dream of freedom and resist erasure. An archaeologist explains why visualizations of our evolutionary cousins matter.

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From Fleeing to Fighting Back: New Research Explores How People Decide During Violence

Political Science Now

Thus, the 1980s and 1990s were violence-ridden periods fueled by Sikh insurgency, state repression, and human rights abuses. To test his arguments, Milliff collected over 500 survivor testimonies gathered from video archives compiled by a civil society organization. He further conducted interviews with survivors and victims.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Select a site in your town or city that symbolizes or reflects history that teachers would be required to lie about or omit if these bills become law, which is already the case in some states.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. There are also countless historic sites that are unmarked such as a freeway that destroyed a neighborhood or a university building funded by enslaved labor.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

This summer, Creel joined a dozen other teachers from across the state at a weeklong training institute at the state’s Department of Archives and History. RELATED: The districts that use outdated textbooks to teach about the Civil Rights Movement. It changed me as an individual,” she said. “I

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Congratulations to the 2024 APSA Award Winners

Political Science Now

Cohen, University of Chicago Hubert H.

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

Read more from the SAPIENS archives: “ Living as Stateless Palestinians in Jordan.” I’ve lived for close to four years in Jordan and have spent extended periods of time in Egypt, Lebanon, and other parts of occupied Palestine.

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