About This Study
Ethnic cleansing has shaped modern history across continents and centuries. This resource provides analytical frameworks and detailed case studies to help understand how historians identify, analyze, and compare instances of systematic forced displacement. Navigate freely through conceptual frameworks, historical examples, comparative analysis, and primary sources.
Choose Your Path
What would you like to explore?
Learn the Framework
Understand how historians define and analyze ethnic cleansing. Start here if this is your first time studying this topic.
Explore Case Studies
Dive into specific historical examples: Yugoslav Wars, Trail of Tears, and Jewish displacement from Arab countries.
Compare Patterns
Examine how these cases connect across time and geography. Best explored after reviewing at least one case study.
Read Primary Sources
Examine historical documents, survivor testimonies, maps, and archival materials from each case.
Watch & Listen
Curated videos, documentaries, podcasts, and multimedia resources organized by case study.
Assessment
Complete document-based assignments to analyze primary sources and evaluate cases of ethnic cleansing.
Not sure where to start?
We recommend following this sequence for your first time through the material:
- Learn the Framework → Understand the analytical tools
- Yugoslav Wars → See where the term was coined
- Trail of Tears → Examine a 19th-century American case
- Jewish Displacement → Explore a mid-20th-century case
- Compare Patterns → Synthesize across cases
However, you're free to explore in any order that interests you.