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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.
Antisemitic Children's Book (en español)
From the 1938 antisemitic children’s book The Poisonous Mushroom. The boy is drawing a nose on the chalkboard, and the caption reads: “The Jewish nose is crooked at its tip. It looks like a 6.” This resource is in Spanish.
Flag of Faces
In Spanish, the “Flag of Faces” exhibit at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum features a mosaic of individual portraits.
Speech by Frances Watkins Harper: “We Are All Bound Up Together” (en español)
In Spanish, read an excerpt from an 1866 speech by Black activist and suffragist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
They Fence Their Neighbors Away (en español)
In Spanish, Sioux chief Sitting Bull responds to different visions of land ownership in this speech excerpt.
Platform of the Workingmen’s Party of California (en español)
In Spanish, the political platform of the Workingmen's Party of California, a third party organized around eliminating competition for white laborers in the West and advocating for a ban on Chinese immigration.
Chinese Immigrants Write to President Grant (en español)
In Spanish, Chinese leaders in California write to President Ulysses S. Grant in 1876 about the discrimination their communities face from a rising anti-Chinese movement.
Dépossession, destruction et réserves
Il y avait des réserves en Afrique, dans les colonies britanniques, et au Canada, où les colonisateurs plaçaient les gens qu'ils avaient dépossédés, des gens qui se trouvaient au travers des plans politiques et économiques des colons européens.
Définir l'Indien
Deux lois ont constitué le fondement de ce qui allait devenir la politique du nouveau Dominion concernant les relations avec les Premières Nations : l'Acte pour encourager la civilisation graduelle de 1857 et l'Acte pourvoyant à l'émancipation graduelle de 1869.
Student Journal: Choices in Little Rock (Spanish)
This digital journal, available in Google Slides, gives students a place to record their responses to the unit's journal prompts.
Bannir la culture autochtone
Le but ultime de la Loi sur les Indiens a toujours été l'assimilation des Peuples Autochtones en tant que nations distinctes dans la société majoritaire du Canada.
Éducation traditionnelle
L'idée selon laquelle la culture occidentale était supérieure et les Autochtones devaient être christianisés et civilisés est venue des préjugés des Européens ainsi que de leur refus d'apprécier les enseignements complexes et largement non écrits des communautés autochtones.