History Unfolding

Inspired by the USHMM's History Unfolded project, Deerfield High School began a series of crowdsourcing projects of our own. Students in Social Studies classes participated in the research projects. Some of these were presented in past GCD events through interactive, touch-screen displays, and others are still available for your viewing through this website. Please read below.

Americans and the Holocaust

We participated in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's own crowdsourcing research project History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust. Social Studies classes at DHS researched and submitted their findings to the site.

Rwanda Genocide

In 2019, our research project reflected the 25th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide. The idea was to see how US newspapers covered the unfolding genocide. We created a website to collect and showcase our findings: please visit https://dhsuncovershistory.wixsite.com/rwanda.  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum featured our work in an article on their History Unfolded project.

Uyghur Genocide

Please visit the GCD 2021 page to see all the research compiled by students.

Hate in the USA

Please visit our website from 2021 with the research we compiled on hate incidents in the USA in the last decade (also archived here). This project was inspired by the work we were doing in preparation for our speaker, Christian Picciolini, as well as inspiration we got from hearing scholar Deborah Lipstadt speak about the growth of online hate during a USHMM event, and the ADL H.E.A.T. Map.

You can also visit our page on Combatting Hate Today.

Hate on College Campuses

In 2022, we compiled quotes from recent DHS alumni relating hate incidents on their college campuses. Visit that page here.

Our 2021 website's page on hate incidents in the USA also included incidents of hate on college campuses.  You can see an archive of that on our GCD 2021 page.