In 2023, Minnesota became the 23rd state to mandate genocide studies education for students in grades 6-12. This landmark decision not only required the topic to be incorporated into pre-college education, but also recognized the colonization and forced removal of Indigenous people from their homeland as a genocide. It soon became clear that many teachers, particularly in greater Minnesota, lacked the necessary resources and training to effectively teach this subject. That’s when the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS) stepped in.
With grant funding from the Human Rights Initiative (HRI), CHGS Interim Director Joe Eggers and research assistant and history PhD candidate Tibisay Navarro-Mana launched the podcast, Big Concepts in Small Spaces. The podcast is designed to engage high school students in conversations about human rights, genocide, and the law. Read more about the project.
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