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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.
When History Failed to Turn
Carol Anderson reflects on why once vibrant neighborhoods and why they became places of poverty and crime. Lack of equal educational opportunities despite the Brown v. Board decision left people poorly prepared to face a changing economy.
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Part Five: Violence and Backlash
Scholars discuss racial violence that took part in the South during the Reconstruction era.
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At the River I Stand
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This film reconstructs the events that led to the climax of the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Road to Brown
This film shows the legal case against segregation that launched the civil rights movement.
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The Invasion of America
This video shows how the United States seized over 1.5 billion acres from America's Indigenous people by treaty and executive order between 1776 and 1887.
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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Part Three - No Turning Back
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The third of a 3-part series explores the immigration laws of 1965, and intimate portraits of the new Chinese Americans
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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Part Two - Between Two Worlds
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The second of a 3-part series explores the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act
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Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
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This documentary illuminates the life and work of Bayard Rustin—a visionary activist who has been called “the unknown hero” of the civil rights movement.
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Eleanor Roosevelt and the Declaration of Human Rights
Allida Black discusses Eleanor Roosevelt's expanding views on civil rights in the United States as she negotiates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Part Four: Interracial Democracy
Scholars discuss how African Americans and whites initially worked together within Reconstruction governments.
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Part One: The World the War Made
Scholars discuss the effects that the changes brought about by the Civil War had on the identities of American citizens.
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