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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.
What History Textbooks Leave Out
In 2013, BBC reporter Oi Mariko reflected upon her own childhood education in Japan in the article “What Japanese History Lessons Leave Out”.
Isolating Homosexuals
Find out how Hitler strengthened enforcement of Paragraph 175, a law that made homosexuality a crime in Germany.
Teaching The Children of Willesden Lane: Introducing the Universe of Obligation, Middle School
Teacher Sheila Huntley leads a discussion on the concept of a universe of obligation.
Teaching The Children of Willesden Lane: Upstanders and Bystanders
Teacher Nancy Parrish explores the concept of upstanders and bystanders with her students.
Testimony of Resistance at Auschwitz
Holocaust survivor Helen K. recalls an act of courageous resistance by inmates at Auschwitz.
The American Response to the Armenian Genocide
Professor Peter Balakian describes the American response to the Armenian Genocide during World War I.
The Armenian Genocide
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During World War I, the Ottoman Turks carried out one of the largest genocides in the world's history. This film provides a historical overview of the Armenian Genocide and looks at its denial by Turkey that continues to this day.
The Bielski Brothers: An Introduction
The Bielski brothers led a group of partisans responsible for saving more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
The Confessing Church: Early German Protestant Responses to National Socialism - Victoria Barnett
Dr. Victoria Barnett speaks about German Protestant churches during the rise of the Nazis.
The Courage to Care
This film profiles both Jews who were rescued during the Holocaust and individuals who rescued Jews in France, Holland, and Poland, and raises questions about the moral and ethical dilemmas that rescuers confronted.
The Liberation of Auschwitz
This footage is among the most famous scenes from the liberation of Auschwitz—a group of surviving children now under the care of nurses.