Historical structures
Understanding history–how and why structures developed and evolved–is integral to our ability to reforge and reform those structures, as well as build new ones.
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The Dawn of Everything
This book fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society.
David Graeber, David Wengrow
LGBTQ Rights Timeline in American History
Discover LGBTQ Rights from colonial life to the 21st century.
Teaching LGBTQ History
Transgender History in the United States
This chapter is an unabridged version of the United States History chapter of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, a resource guide by and for transgender communities.
The Stonewall Center | University of Massachusetts Amherst
A Brief History of the Disability Rights Movement
Learn how people with disabilities battle against centuries of biased assumptions, harmful stereotypes and irrational fears to have equal rights.
Anti-Defamation League
The History of the Americans with Disabilities Act
A movement perspective on the history of disability rights.
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
Disability History: The Disability Rights Movement
This article offers a glimpse into the rich and varied history of Americans with disabilities.
National Park Service
Timeline | Latino Americans
The history of Latino American people who have helped shape North America over the last 500-plus years and have become, with more than 50 million people, the largest minority group in the U.S.
PBS
Asian American History Websites
Ancestors in the Americas is the first in-depth television series to present the untold history and contemporary legacy of early Asian immigrants to the Americas, from the 1700s to the 1900s. Explore their Asian American history website list.
PBS | Ancestors in the Americas
Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History: The Discourse, Politics, and Decolonization of History
This essay discusses the historiography that was written during the 1980s about women in the nineteenth-century West.
Antonia I. Castañeda
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Discover a museum that seeks to understand American history through the lens of the African American experience.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
A Radical History of the World
A history of the world, seen from the perspective of mass struggle.
Neil Faulkner
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present
Howard Zinn’s groundbreaking work on U.S. history. This book details lives and facts rarely included in textbooks—an indispensable teacher and student resource.
The Zinn Education Project
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Explore the nation’s founding through the perspective of Indigenous people.
Beacon Press
The 1619 Project from The New York Times
The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
The New York Times
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
Explore the interviews, frameworks, templates and articles created and published by Up With Community.
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