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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.
Des choix qui nous dƩfinissent
Explorez trois histoires de choix faits par certaines personnes pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et examinez leur complexitĆ©, leur impact et ce quāils peuvent enseigner sur le comportement humain.
![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)
Dogma Makes Obedient Ghosts
Consider the connection between science and human values, and reflect on how the Nazis used their beliefs to justify making mass murder as efficient as possible.
![German soldiers are forced by the Allies after World War II to watch a film about the atrocities at German concentration camps.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch10_Image05_Medium_res.jpg?h=00d1719e&itok=fQRbS5ou)
Establishing the Nuremberg Tribunal
Learn about how the Allies established the international tribunal that was responsible for conducting the trials of Germanyās leaders after World War II.
![The city of Nuremberg with a building in ruins, 1945.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch10_Image02_Medium_res.jpg?h=5ec9f416&itok=jXQ5gMYm)
How to Bring Nazi Leaders to Justice?
Learn about how the Allies sought to bring German leaders to justice after World War II and the Holocaust.
![Photograph of Oskar Groning, a former SS member on trial in Germany in 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Former%20SS%20Member%20Oskar%20Groening.jpg?h=312fc7ac&itok=kcIwNaul)
Women in the Weimar Republic
Learn what defined the ānew womanā in Weimar Germany and read about society's resistance to womenās changing roles in politics and the workforce.
![A crowd of women standing in line at a polling station in the Weimar Republic in 1919, the first year women were allowed to vote.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image12_Medium_res.jpg?h=7627bb82&itok=YljeUuli)
In Search of Meaning
Consider why paramilitary groups such as the Freikorps formed in the aftermath of World War I in Germany.
![The Triadic Ballet was created by Oskar Schlemmer, a painter, sculptor, designer, and choreographer who taught at the Bauhaus art school in Germany during the Weimar Republic. Schlemmerās ballet represented the Bauhaus styleāuncluttered, modern, and geometric.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_image06_Medium_res.jpg?h=ba1117de&itok=QZNmQtuq)
Creating a Constitutional Government
Examine the rights, protections, and democratic aspirations in the constitution of Germanyās newly formed democracy, the Weimar Republic.
![A crowd of women standing in line at a polling station in the Weimar Republic in 1919, the first year women were allowed to vote.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image12_Medium_res.jpg?h=7627bb82&itok=YljeUuli)
Boston Community Profiles (en espaƱol)
This handout includes short overviews of the three fastest-growing racial and ethnic groups in Boston in the 1960s, as well as the cityās shrinking white population during that time. This resource is in Spanish.
![Student writing](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/sedgehillY13-021115-nk-HR-12%20%281%29_0.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=MlJgwmZh)
A Latina Mother Responds to Conditions at School
Historian Tatiana Cruz describes what a Latina mother saw when she visited her daughterās school in Boston in the 1970s.
![Motorcycle police escort school buses as they leave South Boston High School](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-02/AP578859834926.jpg?h=81d02d30&itok=pvLW0Jse)
A Latina Mother Responds to Conditions at School (en espaƱol)
Historian Tatiana Cruz describes what a Latina mother saw when she visited her daughterās school in Boston in the 1970s. This resource is in Spanish.
![Motorcycle police escort school buses as they leave South Boston High School](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-02/AP578859834926.jpg?h=81d02d30&itok=pvLW0Jse)
Demographic Trends Shaping the US and the World in 2018
Get an overview of the Pew Research Center's findings on global migration and immigration as of 2018.
![Immigrant women and children wait to enter the bus station.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/2018_ImmigrantsinTexas_FH289810.jpg?h=6834cfb5&itok=lxF7ZoED)