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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.
"The Birth of a Nation" Summarizes Reconstruction
Title cards, or intertitles, from The Birth of a Nation, a 1915 film portraying D.W. Griffith's racist vision of life in the South during the Civil war era.
A Cabin in Hale County, Alabama During the Great Depression
A cabin where an African American family lived, in Hale County, Alabama during the Great Depression.
A General Store Interior in Moundville, Alabama
This photo of the interior of an Alabama general store was taken in the summer of 1936.
Bud Fields and Family
Sharecropper Bud Fields and his family at their home in Hale County, Alabama, in the mid-1930s.
“Emancipation” (1865)
Thomas Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War. Nast envisions a somewhat optimistic picture of the future of free blacks in the United States.
Glenn Ligon, Untitled - Four Etchings [D]
In this second black-on-black etching, Glenn Ligon also uses Ralph Ellison's quote from the prologue of his novel, Invisible Man (1952), though this one uses the complete quote, which ends "...figments of their imagination-indeed everything."
Enfants inuits à Cape Dorset
Cinq enfants inuits à Cape Dorset dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, 1958. Dans la culture inuite, les noms constituent un lien puissant avec la famille et la communauté.
Street Calculus
This cartoon by Garry Trudeau explores the ways that identity impacts how we perceive people.
Street Calculus (en español)
This cartoon by Garry Trudeau explores the ways that identity impacts how we perceive people. This image is in Spanish.
Cross Lake Indian Residential School
Although government funded, the residential schools were operated by churches, with clergymen and women serving most teaching and administrative roles. This photo was taken at Cross Lake Indian Residential School in Manitoba, 1940.
Pensionnat autochtone de Cross Lake
Même si le gouvernement les finançait, les pensionnats autochtones étaient opérés par les églises et les membres du clergé remplissaient la plupart des fonctions pédagogiques et administratives. Cette photo fut prise au pensionnat autochtone de Cross Lake au Manitoba en 1940.