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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.
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)
Sumte Refugee Shelter in Germany
Men play soccer in front of residential houses at the Sumte refugee shelter in Sumte, Amt Neuhaus, Germany, May 2, 2016.
![Three men playing soccer.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/AP_16124529830354_Medium_res.jpg?h=b82ee7a4&itok=32pgalql)
Syrian Refugees
Syrian refugees cross from Syria to Turkey via the Orontes River, near the village of Hacipasa, Turkey, December 8, 2012.
![Syrian refugees cross from Syria to Turkey via the Orontes River, near the village of Hacipasa, Turkey, Dec. 8, 2012. This image was one in a series of 20 by AP photographers that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/2013_SyrianRefugeesontheOrontesRiver_FH248167.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=Gx3XIq0Q)
Discouraging German-Jewish Integration
In 1933, Jewish businessman Oskar Danker and his girlfriend, a Christian woman, were forced to carry signs discouraging Jewish-German integration.
![In 1933, Jewish businessman Oskar Danker and his girlfriend, a Christian woman, were forced to carry signs discouraging Jewish-German integration. Intimate relationships between “true Germans” and Jews were outlawed by 1935.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_DiscouragingGermanJewishIntegration_FH229441.jpg?h=ad1846e1&itok=dfgQyzmm)
Dismantled German Aircraft after WWI
German military aircraft being dismantled and scrapped after World War I, according to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
![German military aircraft being dismantled and scrapped after World War I, according to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image10_Medium_res.jpg?h=8b6300e7&itok=AKXPn6CM)
Edelweiss Pirates
A 1938 photo of a group of Edelweiss Pirates, an unofficial youth group that emerged in response to the strict regimentation of the Hitler Youth.
![A 1938 photo of a group of Edelweiss Pirates, an unofficial youth groups that emerged in response to the strict regimentation of the Hitler Youth.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1938_EdelweissPirates_%20FH229438.jpg?h=048697cd&itok=caMiT2YX)
Flowers and Butterfly by Margit Koretzova
Margit Koretzova painted this while imprisoned at the Terezín ghetto-camp.
![Colorful watercolor of flowers and butterfly](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Flowers%20and%20Butterfly%20by%20Margit%20Koretzova.jpg?h=048697cd&itok=fWowc9yo)
French Countryside after World War II
Two brothers look down at their devastated town in the French countryside, Agneaux, as an American military Jeep drives by. The brothers’ father was executed by the Germans in 1944.
![Two boys sit on a branch in the foreground looking out at destroyed buildings and countryside.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch11_Image01.jpg?h=0255e088&itok=tQ7ZpqSZ)
German Troops in Paris
German troops parade past the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after they occupied the city in June 1940.
![German troops parade past the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after they occupied the city in June 1940.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1940_GermanTroopsInParis_%20FH229463.jpg?h=dfc3751c&itok=56pgPzNq)