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Our Community and the Holocaust: Explore History Unfolded

About History Unfolded

History Unfolded is a project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. It asks students, teachers, and history buffs throughout the United States what was possible for Americans to have known about the Holocaust as it was happening and how Americans responded.

Participants look in local newspapers for news and opinion about 41 different Holocaust-era events that took place in the United States and Europe, and submit articles they find to a national database, as well as information about newspapers that did not cover events. History Unfolded raises questions for scholars and will inform the Museum’s initiative on Americans and the Holocaust.

American newspapers reported frequently on Hitler and Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s. At least 2,000 daily newspapers were printed in the United States in 1933, and most American households received one. US press coverage included reports on the Nazis’ persecution of Jews, Communists, and other political opponents. Yet American readers could not imagine that this persecution would lead to Germany’s mass murder of Jews and other civilians by 1941.

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Join us and Be a part of Digital History!

Join us to collaborate on the "History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust" project. 

We will find and upload historical articles from the Holocaust from local, college, and black press newspapers. Your research will support ongoing exhibit work at the University Libraries as well as research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Program will include: 

  • Presentation by Museum personnel from Washington, DC who will discuss History Unfolded and how the Museum plans to use the data
  • Introduction to navigating the History Unfolded project website
  • Hands-on practice using newspaper archives from Georgia Southern University Libraries

Register for January 27 Workshop (Statesboro)


 

Register for February 24 Workshop (Statesboro)