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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 Range of Human Behavior Vocabulary Terms (en español)
In Spanish, Students predict the definitions of perpetrator, victim, bystander, and upstander, using context clues. This resource is in Spanish.
Notes on the Growth of Nazi Germany, 1933–1939 (en español)
Help students follow along a mini-lecture about Nazi Germany's expansion in the 1930s. This resource is in Spanish.
Youth in Nazi Germany Reading Set 1 (en español)
Have students read and annotate passages on the experiences of youth in Nazi Germany. This resource is in Spanish.
Youth in Nazi Germany Reading Set 2 (en español)
Have students read and annotate passages on the experiences of youth in Nazi Germany. This resource is in Spanish.
Choices and Consequences (en español)
Help students be active listeners of their classmates' presentations about the choices individuals in Nazi Germany. This resource is in Spanish.
A Commandant’s View (en español)
In Spanish, get insight into how a commander at a Nazi death camp viewed his victims and coped with his actions.
A Basic Feeling of Human Dignity (en español)
In Spanish, diary entries from a Jewish woman imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen shed light on how prisoners in camps and ghettos were deprived of dignity.
Jewish Ghettos in Eastern Europe (en español)
This map shows the locations of the largest Jewish ghettos. This resource is in Spanish.
Main Nazi Camps and Killing Sites (en español)
Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis established more than 40,000 camps for the imprisonment, forced labor, or mass killing of Jews, Sinti and Roma, Communists, and other so-called “enemies of the state." View the Spanish version of this map.
El Niño del Gueto de Varsovia
Esta foto muestra a Tsvi Nussbaum, de 7 años, en el gueto de Varsovia en 1943. La foto fue tomada por un fotógrafo nazi. La información sobre si este niño sobrevivió a la guerra es contradictoria en los registros.
1932 German Election Ballot (en español)
The 1932 German election ballot featured 36 parties, many of which existed only on paper. The number of different groups made it difficult for any single party to gain a majority in parliament in the Weimar Republic. This resource is in Spanish.
The Artist and His Mother by Arshile Gorky (en español)
This image, which is on the cover of Facing History's publication Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians was painted by the artist Arshile Gorky. It is based on a photograph of Gorky and his mother, Sushan der Marderosian, taken in 1912. Although Gorky is generally identified as an American artist, he was born Vosdanig Adoian near the city of Van in what was then the Ottoman Empire. A few years after the photograph was taken, Gorky and his mother were victims of the Armenian Genocide. While he survived, Gorky remembers his mother dying in his arms. As an artist Gorky returned to the subject of the 1912 photograph many times throughout his career. This resource is in Spanish.