Facing Our Ugly History

A series of videos featuring various ugly incidents and policies from the history of various countries.

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Ugly history: The 1937 Haitian Massacre - Edward Paulino.
Ugly History: Witch Hunts - Brian A. Pavlac.
Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps - Densho.
Ugly History: The Spanish Inquisition - Kayla Wolf.
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion - Orisanmi Burton.
What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials - Brian A. Pavlac.
Ugly History: The U.S. Syphilis Experiment - Susan M. Reverby.
Why was India split into two countries? - Haimanti Roy.
The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act - Robert Chang.
History's deadliest king - by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja.