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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.
Selling Progress: A South African Filmstrip for American Students
Read the transcript of a video the South African government sent to American students as a way to convince the international community of the benefits of apartheid.
![Group of people waving South African flags in back lit.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_2018_SouthAfricaConfrontingApartheidBannerunedited_FH282249.jpg?h=40d6a7d7&itok=gii2H08Z)
Partisan Sonia Orbuch after World War II
Sonia Orbuch, a Jewish partisan in Poland during the Holocaust, and her husband, Isaak Orbuch, on their wedding day in 1945.
![Sonia Orbuch, a Jewish partisan in Poland during the Holocaust, and her husband on their wedding day in 1945.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_PartisanSoniaOrbuchafterWorldWarII_FH227675.jpg?h=01b11b5d&itok=fXjQZD3M)
Persecution of Jews During the Plague
This illustration depicts brutal anti-Judaic violence during the Middle Ages.
![Woodcut of a group of men in a pit being set on fire.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch02_Image01_Medium_res.jpg?h=a61f7ba7&itok=xDw1MDcG)
Plea for Help for Europe's Jews
Cartoon used to sway public opinion to help Jews during the holocaust
![In the Chicago Daily News, November 23, 1938, the cartoonist Cecil Jensen pleaded for world leaders to help Europe’s Jews.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Image_Ch07_07_Medium_res.jpg?h=f31e8512&itok=wXnPDOvH)
Police at Battle of Cable Street
Demonstrators barricaded the streets in London's East End where Fascist leader Oswald Mosley and the Blackshirts had planned a march.
![Police destroy barricades blocking the street from a fascist march](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Police_at_the_Battle_of_Cable_Street_FH2116833.jpg?h=01b11b5d&itok=Y1sk-tjZ)
Pre-War Jewish Family
A Jewish family, possibly in Sighet, taken before the beginning of World War II, ca. 1930–1940.
![Family portrait with children, parents, and grandparents. Taken circa 1930-1940.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Group_portrait_of_a_prewar_Jewish_family_FH260052.jpg?h=eb24755d&itok=WLbJ7yIT)
Brown Girl Dreaming
Through using free-verse poetry, the author shares her childhood memories of growing up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
![A girl leans against a wall while reading a book.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/iStock-1209693972.jpg?h=7bbcb45e&itok=b5N9XQ_7)
Steve Biko Calls for Black Consciousness
Activist Steve Biko’s speech links white racism to the Black Consciousness movement, calling on black South Africans to create their own power to fight oppression.
![Steve Biko spearheaded the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in South Africa from the mid 1960s until his death while in police custody in 1977.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_2018_SteveBiko_FH282029.jpg?h=39c2980c&itok=RY4sYtvP)
What Is Ethical?: The Case of Polaroid
Consider the case study of Polaroid, in which opposing sides (Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement and Polaroid) voice their reasoning of whether or not to divest from South Africa.
![Caroline Hunter wears a “No Bullshit, Boycott Polaroid” campaign button.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/2018_CarolineHunterBoycottPolaroid_FH282021.jpg?h=7784dd4d&itok=AQ66r1aS)
Healing and Justice Anticipation Guide
This handout asks students to engage with some of the dilemmas that Americans faced after the Civil War by taking positions on various statements.
![Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Civil_Rights_Ruinsfromthefire1861_Charleston_1865_FH21222.jpg?h=f3a37c6e&itok=jW37ikF4)
Healing and Justice Anticipation Guide (en español)
In Spanish, this handout helps students engage with some of the dilemmas that Americans faced after the Civil War.
![Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Civil_Rights_Ruinsfromthefire1861_Charleston_1865_FH21222.jpg?h=f3a37c6e&itok=jW37ikF4)