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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
Antisemitism and Jewish Identity
Consider Ernst Toller, Sigmund Freud, and Arnold Schoenberg’s reactions to the growing antisemitism in Germany in the 1920s.
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Attitudes toward Life and Death
Learn about the pamphlet published by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche that sparked a national debate about race and eugenics in Germany in the 1920s.
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Who Is Human?
Consider the conflict in eighteenth-century US and France between the Enlightenment ideal of equality and the existence of deep social inequalities like slavery.
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1914: War or Peace?
Consider how nationalism and militarism in Europe in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries contributed to the outbreak of World War I.
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Between Peace and War
Consider why some Europeans changed their anti-war stance when World War I officially began, and why others like conscientious objectors continued to oppose the war.
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Combat and the Colonies: the Role of Race in World War I
Journalist, lecturer, and author Adam Hochschild discusses the role African and Asian troops from European colonies played in World War I.
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Station 1: Polling Data / Roosevelt's Response
Students explore America's response to Kristallnacht by examining an opinion poll and considering the president's response.
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Station 2: Responses to Kristallnacht
Students explore America's response to Kristallnacht by analyzing a photo and newspaper headlines.
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Station 3: The Quota System
Students analyze infographics depicting America's quota system during the refugee crisis provoked by Nazi persecution.
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Essential Quote Worksheet
Students use this handout to complete a collaborative activity about the Wagner-Rogers debate.
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Wagner-Rogers Debate Documents
Students use these primary source documents to take part in a debate about the 1938 Wagner-Rogers Bill.
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