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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
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Human & Civil Rights
The Bear That Wasn't
Explore identity, conformity, and authority with this modern fable about a bear forced to navigate society's perception of who he is.
![An illustration from Fred Tashlin's The Bear That Wasn't.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Bear_04_Medium_res.jpg?h=e234a08a&itok=1oJczY0C)
The Bear That Wasn't (en español)
Explore identity, conformity, and authority with this modern fable about a bear forced to navigate society's perception of who he is. This resource is in Spanish.
![An illustration from Fred Tashlin's The Bear That Wasn't.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Bear_04_Medium_res.jpg?h=e234a08a&itok=1oJczY0C)
The Blink of an Eye
Learn what new research into human behavior reveals about prejudice, unconscious bias, and our brains' practice of creating categories and expectations for others.
![Photograph by James Luna.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/HHB_Chapter_2_Medium_res.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=OtysDNT5)
Apartheid Resistance Posters
These posters represent six distinct aspects of the anti-apartheid movement's struggle for democracy in South Africa during the 1980s.
![Poster advertising a rally in Capetown contains an illustration of people marching carrying a "UDF" flag.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/UDF_Unites_-_Apartheid_Divides.jpg?h=2b832867&itok=CtZS0cnT)
The Consequences of Stereotyping
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Journalist Brent Staples describes the strategies he developed to counter the stereotypes strangers might attach to him as a young Black man.
![Fragmented images of a human face.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Ch01_Image07_Medium_res.jpg?h=d2de68a6&itok=T0WiNJDv)
Reverend Frank McRae
Learn about Reverend Frank McRae, the minister of St. John's United Methodist Church from 1976 to 1995.
![Reverend Frank McRae featured on the Memphis Upstanders Mural, a painting on the side of a brick building in Memphis, TN.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/RevFrankMcrae_FH249671.jpg?h=78aec65c&itok=frZt71LM)
Yellow Fever Upstanders
Learn about the ordinary citizens who volunteered to fight the yellow fever outbreak in 1878.
![Three nuns are featured on the Memphis Upstanders Mural, a painting on a brick building in Memphis, TN.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/YellowFeverUpstanders_FH249659.jpg?h=cd7d7283&itok=MOKc8y-G)
Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles
Learn about Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles, founder and pastor of Monumental Baptist Church and Civil Rights activist.
![Reverend Billy Kyles is featured on the Memphis Upstanders Mural, a painting on a brick building in Memphis, TN.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/RevBillyKyles_FH249667.jpg?h=0d92313b&itok=aQoAm7xH)
Lucy Tibbs
Learn about Lucy Tibbs, survivor of the Memphis Massacre whose courageous testimony led to the passage of the 14th amendment.
![A featured painting of Lucy Tibbs on the Memphis Upstanders Mural, a painting on a brick wall in Memphis, TN.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/LucyTibbs_FH249665.jpg?h=654c938a&itok=wl5WP2GI)
John T. Fisher II
Learn about John T. Fisher II, a community leader and organizer who helped united Memphis after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
![A black and white featured painting of John T. Fisher II on the Memphis Upstanders Mural, a painting on a brick wall in Memphis, TN.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/JohnTFisherII_FH249669.jpg?h=84d5ef99&itok=RLpVPrm4)