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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.
Fritz Mackensen, Der Saeugling (The Baby), 1892
Mackensen’s work represents a more traditional style of art that many Germans were familiar with before World War I. This painting was featured in the 1937 Great German Art Exhibition in Munich, sponsored by the Nazis. See full-sized image for analysis.
Fur Trade
Europeans and Indigenous Peoples of Canada interacted through the fur trade for almost 300 years. This photo is from the 1950s, when the extensiveness of the trade network had much declined from its peak in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
La traite des fourrures
Le commerce des fourrures a permis aux Européens et aux Peuples Autochtones du Canada d’interagir pendant près de 300 ans. Cette photographie date des années 1950, moment où l’étendue du réseau commercial avait beaucoup diminué par rapport à son apogée aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.
Finding Confidence
A young woman describes her journey overcoming an inner bully and fear of being different.
Finding Confidence (en español)
In Spanish, a young woman describes her journey overcoming an inner bully and fear of being different.
Which One of These Things Is Not Like the Others?
This handout introduces students to the idea that when we sort and categorize, we make judgments about which characteristics are more meaningful than others.
Which of These Things Is Not Like the Others? (en español)
This handout introduces students to the idea that when we sort and categorize, we make judgments about which characteristics are more meaningful than others. This handout is in Spanish.
Betraying the Youth
Former Nazi youth member Alfons Heck reflects on coming to terms with Germany’s role and his own part in the Holocaust.
Independent vs. Dependent Learner
This excerpt from Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond outlines four practices-areas of culturally responsive teaching.
How Anti-Semitism Rises on the Left and Right
An interview with David Nirenberg, the dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, about antisemitism and the rise of anti-Jewish violence.
Kroger Shooting Suspect Tried to Enter Black Church Before Killing 2 in Kentucky, Police Say
This New York Times article reports on an attack that is being investigated as a hate crime.