Curriculum: The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics

The Tennessee Holocaust Commission proudly announces the publication of two new resources on teaching the Holocaust. The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics edited by Vanderbilt Professor of History Helmut Walser Smith and its companion Teacher's Guide developed by Paul Fleming, Social Studies Chair, Hume-Fogg Academic High School, Nashville.

This interdisciplinary text and teacher guide, suitable for high school classrooms, is being distributed without charge to schools in Tennessee in the Fall of 2002 as a top-priority project of the Commission.

The Teacher's Guide is 36 pages, spiral bound, 8 1/2 by 11, includes suggestions for classroom use and ties directly to documents in the text The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics. It can be purchased from the Tenneessee Holocaust Commission, Inc. for $12 plus $3 shipping and handling. To place your order, call 615-343-2563.

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http://www.vanderbilt.edu/News/register/Sept16_02/story2.html.

Dr. Kay Clark, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the Tennessee Board of Regents (and a member of the Tennessee Holocaust Commission) and Felicia Anchor, Commission Chair, flank Jeff Roberts, Deputy Commissioner of Education of the State of Tennessee. Roberts holds a copy of the new book, The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics. Copies of the book will be given to every high school, public and private, in the state as a gift from the Commission and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.

Celebrating the publication of the new text and its companion teacher guide are participants in the project. From the left: Tom Ward, Principal of Hume-Fogg Academic High School; Sue Chaney Gilmore, a contributor to both books from Hillsboro High School; Paul Fleming, creator of the Teacher Guide from Hume-Fogg High School; Ruth Tanner, Executive Director, Tennessee Holocaust Commission; Felicia Anchor, Commission Chair; and, Mona Frederick, Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt. Copies of the Teacher Guide will be donated to every high school in the state.

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