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![A group of high school students sit at desks in conversation.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-10/AdobeStock_254378868.jpg?itok=f6YAphey)
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.
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)
Photograph of a Jewish Man by Roman Vishniac
A photograph by Roman Vishniac (1897–1990), ca. 1935–1938.
![An elderly man with a long white beard, wearing a black hat and a long black coat walks down a street carrying a sack.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/13_Vishniac_old_man_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?h=beca6b47&itok=Wh5urltC)
Refugees Aboard the St. Louis
Passengers aboard the St. Louis, seeking refuge from Nazi-occupied Europe, wait to find out if they will be allowed entry into Cuba in June 1939.
![Passengers aboard the St. Louis, seeking refugee from Nazi-occupied Europe, wait to find out if they will be allowed entry into Cuba in June 1939.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1939_RefugeesAboardTheStLouis_%20FH229460.jpg?h=8911ddd7&itok=s3x-8iE8)
Selected for Slave Labor
These men were determined fit to perform hard labor. Their heads were shaved and their clothes replaced with prison uniforms.
![Men in prison uniform and shaved heads stand in line.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Confiscation%20of%20Prisoners%E2%80%99%20Belongings.jpg?h=8e8edc7c&itok=F4zP7Q1K)
Connecting to Our Past
Jin Xuefei’s poem and Charlene Wang’s anecdote show how the context in which we understand our past can shape how we understand ourselves today.
![Wong Family at the Great Wall of China.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/Wong_Family_Great_Wall_of_China_FH2ORD11858.jpg?h=7cee16b4&itok=YrZgOm_i)
10 Questions Framework: Questions for the Past
Students apply the 10 Questions Framework to 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott.
![Crowd fills LaSalle Street between City Hall and building housing Board of Education as hundreds of demonstrators marched in Chicago on Oct. 22, 1963 following a one-day boycott of public schools.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_1963_AfricanAmericanIntegrationAntiSchoolBoycott1963IL_FH2169828.jpg?h=12de4a96&itok=CAfhRaQg)
The Brutal Realities of World War I
Gain insight into the death and destruction of World War I with firsthand accounts from former soldiers.
![Painting title Gassed by John Singer Sargent. Shows World War I soldiers with bandaged eyes being led by other soldiers. Many dead and injured soldiers laying at the base of the painting.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image05_Medium_res.jpg?h=fe25bc16&itok=_3yOA5E-)
The Brutal Realities of World War I (en español)
Gain insight into the death and destruction of World War I with firsthand accounts from former soldiers. This reading is in Spanish.
![Painting title Gassed by John Singer Sargent. Shows World War I soldiers with bandaged eyes being led by other soldiers. Many dead and injured soldiers laying at the base of the painting.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image05_Medium_res.jpg?h=fe25bc16&itok=_3yOA5E-)