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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.
Fort QuāAppelle Indian Industrial School
Tipis stand just outside the fence of Fort QuāAppelle Indian Industrial School in 1895 in Lebret, Saskatchewan. The tipis likely belong to the First Nation families of children attending the school.
![A rural setting with teepees in the foreground and a group of buildings in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1895_FortQu%E2%80%99Appelle_FH24269.jpg?h=4df085b2&itok=2BIES1v-)
LāĆ©cole industrielle indienne de Fort QuāAppelle
Cette photographie de 1895 illustre des tipis situĆ©s en pĆ©riphĆ©rie de la clĆ“ture de lāĆ©cole industrielle indienne de Fort QuāAppelle, situĆ©e au village de Lebret dans la province de Saskatchewan. Les tipis appartiennent probablement aux familles des enfants qui frĆ©quentent lāĆ©cole.
![A rural setting with teepees in the foreground and a group of buildings in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1895_FortQu%E2%80%99Appelle_FH24269.jpg?h=4df085b2&itok=2BIES1v-)
Fort Resolution Indian Residential School
In the crowded and understaffed residential schools, the physical and domestic chores performed by students were critical to keeping the schools afloat. In this photo children are seen cutting logs at Fort Resolution Indian Residential School.
![A group of boys are cutting and handling logs in assembly line fashion.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Genocide_FortResolutionResidentialSchoolBoysworking_FH24274.jpg?h=7578e71c&itok=x8z4eOB-)
Pensionnat autochtone de Fort Resolution
Dans les pensionnats autochtones bondĆ©s et en pĆ©nurie dāeffectifs, les corvĆ©es physiques et domestiques effectuĆ©es par les Ć©tudiants Ć©taient essentielles pour maintenir les Ć©coles en vie. Sur cette photographie se trouvent des enfants qui coupent des billes de bois au pensionnat autochtone de Fort Resolution dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest.
![A group of boys are cutting and handling logs in assembly line fashion.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Genocide_FortResolutionResidentialSchoolBoysworking_FH24274.jpg?h=7578e71c&itok=x8z4eOB-)
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.
![Men on a street look at fur.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1942_CanadianFurTrade_FH24266.jpg?h=1c53af67&itok=7dEtvATW)
La traite des fourrures
Le commerce des fourrures a permis aux EuropĆ©ens et aux Peuples Autochtones du Canada dāinteragir pendant prĆØs de 300 ans. Cette photographie date des annĆ©es 1950, moment oĆ¹ lāĆ©tendue du rĆ©seau commercial avait beaucoup diminuĆ© par rapport Ć son apogĆ©e aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siĆØcles.
![Men on a street look at fur.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1942_CanadianFurTrade_FH24266.jpg?h=1c53af67&itok=7dEtvATW)
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.
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Which of These Things Is Not Like the Others? (en espaƱol)
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.
![Blurred crowd used to illustrate "individual and society" in Holocaust and Human Behavior.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/HHB_Chapter_1_Medium_res.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=oyKNRFjB)
Red Scarf Girl
Ji-li Jiang, author of the memoir Red Scarf Girl, brings to life her deeply personal story of survival during China's Cultural Revolution.
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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Part One - Gold Mountain Dreams
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The first of a 3-part series explores the early years of Chinese immigration to the U.S.
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Teaching Mockingbird: Images
These photographs were taken by Walker Evans in the 1930s for the Farm Security Administration of the United States Government. The government established the FSA to help document the reality and effects of the Great Depression on farmers and communities in the rural South.
![A cabin where an African American family lived, in rural Hale County, Alabama during the Great Depression.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/5_Negro_cabin%2C_Hale_County%2C_AL.jpg?h=54dfc285&itok=Oh_qn6Vu)