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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.
Eugenics, Race, and Marriage
Learn about the case of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, who were prosecuted because they violated a Virginia law banning interracial couples from marrying.
The Origins of Eugenics
Learn about Francis Galton and the beginnings of eugenics, or “race science,” and consider the relationship between science and society.
Nazi Propaganda Newspaper
An issue of the antisemitic propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker) is posted on the sidewalk in Worms, Germany, in 1935.
![An issue of the antisemitic propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker) is posted on the sidewalk in Worms, Germany, in 1935. The headline above the case says, ""The Jews Are Our Misfortune.""](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_NaziPropagandaNewspaper_FH229452.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=WOgfci3M)
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
Outraged by reports and photos of the German Air Force's bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War, Pablo Picasso painted Guernica after the town that was destroyed.
![Outraged by reports and photos of the German Air Force's bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War, Pablo Picasso painted Guernica after the town that was destroyed.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_InterventionSpain_FH229459.jpg?h=3bfaf5cd&itok=9tCBuAzD)
Philipp Veit, Germania, 1848
Germania, painted by Philipp Veit in 1848, was a symbol of the German nation during the revolutions of 1848–49 and in later years.
![Germania, painted by Philipp Veit in 1848, was a symbol of the German nation during the revolutions of 1848–49 and in later years.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch02_Image07.jpg?h=af65be21&itok=QpBQpuIJ)
Little Things Are Big
Puerto Rican writer Jesús Colón describes a time when his awareness of stereotypes influenced his decision-making.
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Little Things Are Big (en español)
Puerto Rican writer Jesús Colón describes a time when his awareness of stereotypes influenced his decision-making. This resource is in Spanish.
![Fragmented images of a human face.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Ch01_Image07_Medium_res.jpg?h=d2de68a6&itok=T0WiNJDv)
Robert and Inge Smallbones
Candid photo of Robert and Inge Smallbones, who helped Jews escape the Holocaust.
![Robert Smallbones, a British diplomat who created a visa program that enabled Jews to escape Nazi-occupied Germany, and his wife, Inge.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_RobertIngeSmallbones_%20FH229455.jpg?h=347bb53a&itok=03KUXQea)
Sighet before World War II
This illustration shows Elie Wiesel’s hometown in Romania before World War II.
![Black and white drawing of town square in Sighet, Romania. Depicts pre-World War II Sighet.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/22714_Medium_res.jpg?h=dfc3751c&itok=fQCCLTc6)
Students at Kheyder
Students sitting at a traditional Jewish religious school, or kheyder, in 1920s Sighet.
![Young boys on a bench in Sighet, Poland. Circa 1920.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/yarg390sighet1_Medium_res.jpg?h=d9c90c06&itok=O17Gxq81)
"Kristallnacht": The November 1938 Pogroms
Scholars discuss the events of Kristallnacht, a series of violent attacks against Jews in Germany, Austria, and part of Czechoslovakia in November, 1938.
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