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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.
America and the Holocaust
Learn about Americans' attitudes of fear and distrust toward Jewish refugees from Europe.
![Children stand in front of a sign reading Maison d' Enfants USA](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-09/image_2_360x260.jpeg?h=f1cce077&itok=THWs_fo8)
Understanding Rescue: What Scholars Say
Learn more about the conclusions that scholars have drawn from other stories of upstanders
![Martha and Waitstill Sharp wave to a crowd before leaving New York City for Europe. Martha wears a corsage of flowers on her coat and holds a bouquet of flowers in her left hand. Stamped in ink on verso: "Photo by William T. Hoff, New York Municipal Airport"](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-09/Martha_and_Waitstill_Sharp_waving_for_Web_or_Office_Use.jpg?h=a9a611f7&itok=ld5w1FcD)
Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg
This image shows the Chief American Prosecutor, Justice Robert Jackson, speaking at Nuremberg Trials
![International Military Tribunal Nuremberg Chief American prosecutor Justice Robert Jackson delivers the opening speech of the American prosecution at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Prosecutor_Robert_Jackson_at_Nuremberg_Trials.jpg?h=3a805815&itok=wNPQgOGk)
Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II
The last emperors of Germany and Russia posing together in 1905.
![Photo of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II posing in uniform.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image07_Medium_res.jpg?h=7101d55d&itok=pRrU0J5d)
Kurt Dreyer's Son
Kurt Dreyer’s son wears the boots his father, a German soldier, sent him from Poland during World War II. Meine stiefel means “my boots.”
![Kurt Dreyer’s son wears the boots his father, a German soldier, sent him from Poland during World War II. Meine stiefel means “my boots.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_KurtDreyersSon_%20FH229465.jpg?h=3bfaf5cd&itok=JI_qP1C5)
La Guespy Children's Home
Jews living at a children's home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, with their director, Juliette Usach, 1941.
![Jews living at a children's home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, with their director, Juliette Usach, 1941. The people of Le Chambon and surrounding villages hid nearly 5,000 people fleeing Nazi occupation.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1941_LaGuespyChildrensHome_FH229476.jpg?h=fbf7a813&itok=5bwT7e6v)
The "In" Group
High school student Eve Shalen reflects back on a time in middle school when peer pressure and desire for belonging influenced her decision-making.
![Hands raised in the air by group of people](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_GroupBelonging_FH229369.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=O6H7UmzG)
Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, 1930
German-American Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, Germany’s first full-length talkie.
![Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg, was Germany’s first full-length talkie, a motion picture with sound as opposed to a silent film. The film follows the story of college professor who is undone by his attraction to Lola-Lola, a cabaret dancer played by German-American Marlene Dietrich. The film made Dietrich an international film star, and she continued her acting career in the United States.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image09_Medium_res.jpg?h=ac1fc4d9&itok=W2CNh6u-)
Mass Grave in Vinnytsia, Ukraine
A member of Einsatzgruppe D, a mobile killing unit, about to shoot a man kneeling by a mass grave in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, in 1942.
![Nazi soldier holds gun to a man's head who is kneeled next to a ditch full of bodies.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_MassGraveinVinnytsiaUkraine_FH229478.jpg?h=b5e7ecd0&itok=kaw8xWRY)
Nazi Eugenics Exhibition Poster
This poster from a eugenics exhibition in the 1930s reads, “Sterilization is Liberation, Not a Punishment.” Three handicapped children are also pictured with the caption, “Who would want to be responsible for this?”
![Poster depicting three handicapped children and German text along the top.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch05_Image05.jpg?h=5bbdf1b2&itok=gZKHu2ZF)