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Find compelling classroom resources, learn new teaching methods, meet standards, and make a difference in the lives of your students.
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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.
Trailer from the documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
This trailer from "Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness" features writings and humorous reflections of Sholem Aleichem and his life
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Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens)
Triumph of the Will is a Nazi propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl.
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Turned Away on the M.S. St. Louis
Holocaust survivor Sol Messinger describes his experiences attempting to emigrate from Germany to Cuba in 1939 aboard the ship the M.S. St. Louis.
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Tuvia Bielski Saving Jewish Lives
Former Jewish partisan Aron Bell describes the Bielski group's commitment to saving the lives of Jews.
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Using Facing History's "Stolen Lives" in the Classroom
Hear from a former teacher and a residential school survivor on how our "Stolen Lives" book and professional development workshops equip educators to teach and contextualize the topic of Indian Residential Schools in Canada.
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Using Identity Charts to Teach Mockingbird
A middle school teacher guides students in a group discussion around the question “What is identity?” as a pre-reading activity in a To Kill a Mockingbird unit.
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Using the Universe of Obligation Tool to Teach Mockingbird
A middle school teacher helps her class explore the moral universe of Maycomb in To Kill a Mockingbird using the concept of "universe of obligation."
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War of Annihilation: Targeting the Jews of Europe
Scholars Peter Hayes, Deborah Dwork, Wendy Lower, Joshua Rubenstein, Michael Berenbaum, and Jonathan Petropoulos describe the steps that Nazi Germany took in deciding to murder the Jews of Europe.
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Warning the World
Jan Karski, a diplomat and member of the Polish resistance during World War II, describes his experience in the Warsaw Ghetto and his meeting with U.S. President Roosevelt.
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We Call Ourselves "Roma"
Scholar Margareta Matache explains significant moments in the history of the Roma people.
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We May Use Words to Break the Prison: Elie Wiesel on Writing Night
Elie Wiesel explains that he wrote his memoir Night out of a duty to bear witness to his experiences in the Holocaust.
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