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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.
The Age of Rights?
World War II brought a new awareness of human rights around the world. After the horrors of the Holocaust came to full light, few people could deny the dangers of racism. The anti-colonial movement was growing stronger around the world, and with the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the newly formed United Nations, many turned their attention to the rights of colonized people globally. In Africa, Asia, and the Americas, liberation movements helped bring the plight of millions under European colonialism to public attention.
![Eleanor Roosevelt and United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Lake Success, New York, November 1949.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/24427-2011-001_a.jpg?h=e15b44ae&itok=kmDSMzTQ)
Aggressive Assimilation
Facing the resilience of indigenous traditional education in Canada, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, who was also Minister of Indian Affairs, commissioned Nicholas Flood Davin, a journalist, lawyer, and politician, to go to Washington, DC, in 1879 to study how the United States tackled the same issue.
![Portrait of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1872_PrimeMinisterJohnAMacdonald_FH24268.png?h=0652d3a6&itok=OFUvbJgz)
Confronting Denial of the Armenian Genocide through Art
Learn how Los Angeles-area artists marked the 100 year anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
![A mural by Arutyun Gozukuchikyan a.k.a. ArtViaArt in Los Angeles.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Armenian_Genocide_mural_card_Medium_res.jpg?h=24afd704&itok=69iBr0p0)
Confronting Denial of the Armenian Genocide through Art (en español)
Learn how Los Angeles-area artists marked the 100 year anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. This resource is in Spanish.
![A mural by Arutyun Gozukuchikyan a.k.a. ArtViaArt in Los Angeles.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Armenian_Genocide_mural_card_Medium_res.jpg?h=24afd704&itok=69iBr0p0)
Navigating Multiple Identities
Armenian American writer Diana Der Hovanessian reflects on how her family history influences her identity in her poem "Two Voices."
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Navigating Multiple Identities (en español)
Armenian American writer Diana Der Hovanessian reflects on how her family history influences her identity in her poem "Two Voices." This resource is in Spanish.
![A diverse group of students seated in a classroom.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/LosAngelesSummit_2018_FH287205.jpeg?h=24d1b2c2&itok=oNSqCx2i)
Historical Background: The Indian Act and the Indian Residential Schools
Go deeper into the history of the Indian Act and the founding of the Residential Schools system.
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Contexte Historique: La Loi sur les Indiens et les pensionnats
Approfondissez vos connaissances sur l’histoire de la Loi sur les Indiens et l’établissement du système des pensionnats autochtones.
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Warsan Shire's Poetry About Home
British-Somali poet Warsan Shire gives voice to the experiences of refugees in a poem about "home."
![Syrian refugees cross from Syria to Turkey via the Orontes River, near the village of Hacipasa, Turkey, Dec. 8, 2012. This image was one in a series of 20 by AP photographers that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/2013_SyrianRefugeesontheOrontesRiver_FH248167.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=Gx3XIq0Q)
Laundrymen and Movies
Learn about the prejudice, stereotypes, and victimization Chinese and Chinese Americans faced in the US in the 1920s.
![This is a photograph of Wong Kim Ark from an federal immigration investigation case conducted under the Chinese Exclusion Acts (1882-1943).](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/1904_IdentificationPhotographonAffidavitforWongKimArk_FH2173435.jpg?h=7218466b&itok=ayWMLquu)
United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Crime of Genocide
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, or the Genocide Convention, is an international treaty that criminalizes genocide and obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition.
![A photograph of several delegates who signed the UN Genocide Convention Credit: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of United Nations](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-09/Lemkin_Ratification_Of_Genocide_Convention_FH131485.jpg?h=6db1c67f&itok=hEICVT3F)