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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.
Europe and the Middle East, 1941
By the end of 1941, Germany and its allies, the Axis powers, had conquered most of continental Europe, from the eastern border of Spain to the outskirts of Moscow.
![By the end of 1941, Germany and its allies, the Axis powers, had conquered most of continental Europe, from the eastern border of Spain to the outskirts of Moscow.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1941_EuropeMiddleEast_%20FH229528.jpg?h=048697cd&itok=MBy_Srh5)
Flowers and Butterfly by Margit Koretzova
Margit Koretzova painted this while imprisoned at the Terezín ghetto-camp.
![Colorful watercolor of flowers and butterfly](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Flowers%20and%20Butterfly%20by%20Margit%20Koretzova.jpg?h=048697cd&itok=fWowc9yo)
French Countryside after World War II
Two brothers look down at their devastated town in the French countryside, Agneaux, as an American military Jeep drives by. The brothers’ father was executed by the Germans in 1944.
![Two boys sit on a branch in the foreground looking out at destroyed buildings and countryside.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch11_Image01.jpg?h=0255e088&itok=tQ7ZpqSZ)
German Troops in Paris
German troops parade past the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after they occupied the city in June 1940.
![German troops parade past the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after they occupied the city in June 1940.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1940_GermanTroopsInParis_%20FH229463.jpg?h=dfc3751c&itok=56pgPzNq)
Hannah Höch, The Kitchen Knife, 1919
Hannah Höch's work, including The Kitchen Knife, consists primarily of collages often made from photographs.
![Höch’s work consists primarily of collages, often made from photographs. Höch was part of the Dada movement, which formed in part as a reaction to the death and destruction from World War I. Dada artists prized irrationality and considered their work “anti-art.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image02_Medium_res.jpg?h=2a35d14f&itok=6_ttoQA6)
‘63 Boycott: Today is Freedom Day
During the 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott, 225,000 students protested racial segregation and unequal conditions in Chicago's schools. This video features footage of the boycott and student participants' eyewitness accounts.
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Marion Pritchard
Marion Pritchard holds Erika Polak, one of the children she saved from the Nazis. Working with the Dutch resistance, Pritchard helped to save more than 150 children during World War II.
![Marion Pritchard holds Erika Polak, one of the children she saved from the Nazis. Working with the Dutch resistance, Pritchard helped save more than 150 children during World War II.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_MarionPritchard_%20FH229480.jpg?h=22294cb3&itok=dlCxu8XS)
Mourners after Antisemitic Rampage in Poland
Mourners in Kielce, Poland, gather around coffins after townspeople killed 42 Jews in an antisemitic rampage in 1946.
![Mourners in Kielce, Poland, gather around coffins after townspeople killed 42 Jews in an antisemitic rampage in 1946.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch11_Image03_Medium_res.jpg?h=3378375a&itok=sCDgSLwr)
Religion and Identity
Four teenagers from different religious traditions reflect on their experiences of religious belief and belonging.
![Symbols of the Three Monotheistic Religions](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/11_Nov_2006%2C_Paris%2C_France_Symbols_of_Three_Monotheistic_Faiths_5790055817_o.jpg?h=7685ba0d&itok=N1VwnAM7)
Nineteenth Century Evolution Chart
This late-nineteenth-century chart shows the supposed racial stages of evolution from ape to European that many scientists supported.
![Late nineteenth century chart showing six images displaying the supposed stages of racial evolution, beginning with an ape and ending with a white man.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Nineteenth_Century_Evolution_Chart_FH229388.jpg?h=bb8c9f74&itok=e0e8jHDz)
Photograph of a Girl by Roman Vishniac
Sara, sitting in bed in a basement dwelling, with stenciled flowers above her head, Warsaw, ca. 1935–1938.
![A young girl sitting up in bed with stenciled flowers on the wall behind her. Taken circa 1935-1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/15_Vishniac_girl_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?h=d5886ffc&itok=hUebjiDJ)