Samuel Totten ist ein führender Völkermordforscher, dessen Arbeit sich eingehend mit den Ursachen, Mechanismen und Auswirkungen von Massengewalt befasst. Durch umfangreiche Feldarbeit und Dokumentenanalyse deckt er die brutalen Realitäten von Völkermordkonflikten auf. Seine Forschung dient als eindringliches Zeugnis für das Leid der Opfer und als dringender Aufruf zum Verständnis und zur Prävention. Seine Schriften sind unerlässlich für jeden, der die dunkleren Aspekte der menschlichen Geschichte und die Folgen menschlicher Grausamkeit verstehen möchte.
Insights And Advice From Secondary Teachers And Professors
Secondary level teachers and professors from various disciplines present their best advice and insights into teaching about various facets of genocide and/or delineate actual lessons they have taught that have been particularly successful with their students.
During a one-hundred-day period in 1994, Hutus murdered between half a million and a million Tutsi in Rwanda. The numbers are staggering; the methods of killing were unspeakable. Utilizing personal interviews with trauma survivors living in Rwandan cities, towns, and dusty villages, We Cannot Forget relates what happened during this period and what their lives were like both prior to and following the genocide. Through powerful stories that are at once memorable, disturbing, and informative, readers gain a critical sense of the tensions and violence that preceded the genocide, how it erupted and was carried out, and what these people faced in the first sixteen years following the genocide.
Teaching and Studying the Holocaust is comprised of thirteen chapters by some of the most noted Holocaust educators in the United States. In addition to chapters on establishing clear rationales for teaching this history and Holocaust historiography, the book includes individual chapters on incorporating primary documents, first person accounts, film, literature, art, drama, music, and technology into a study of the Holocaust. It concludes with an extensive and valuable annotated bibliography especially designed for educators. Chapter Ten instructs how to make effective use of technology in teaching and learning about the Holocaust. The final section of the book includes a bibliography especially developed for teachers that lists invaluable resources.