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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.
UDF Unites, Apartheid Divides
Established in 1983, the United Democratic Fronts' goal was the establishment of a non-racial, united South Africa in which segregation is abolished and society is freed from institutional and systemic racism.
![Poster advertising a rally in Capetown contains an illustration of people marching carrying a "UDF" flag.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/UDF_Unites_-_Apartheid_Divides.jpg?h=2b832867&itok=CtZS0cnT)
United Nations Founding Members
On June 26, 1945, 50 nations signed a charter to create the United Nations in order to promote international cooperation and human rights.
![Map highlighting United Nations founding member countries in blue.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Map_101_UN_Founding_Members_1945.jpg?h=38e4958f&itok=7r-BUgym)
View of Johannesburg
A view of Johannesburg and its northern suburbs as seen from the top floor of the Carlton Centre, depicting the city’s modern infrastructure.
![Birds eye view of Johannesburg with many tall modern buildings.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/View_Of_Johannesburg_Medium_res.jpg?h=7fb2964e&itok=KfDXW4P8)
Activists C. P. Ellis and Ann Atwater
C. P. Ellis, a former Ku Klux Klan member, and Ann Atwater, a community activist, formed an unlikely partnership after being assigned as co-leaders of a group of citizens navigating court-ordered school desegregation in Durham, North Carolina, in the 1970s.
![C.P. Ellis, a white man, and Ann Atwater, a Black woman, sit together holding hands.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/ActivistsCPEllisandAnnAtwater_FH229560.jpg?h=cfed2447&itok=wa0fFJ55)
The Eternal Jew
This 1938 poster advertises a popular antisemitic traveling exhibit called Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew).
![1938 poster for antisemitic traveling exhibit called The Eternal Jew. Pictures a caricature of man holding coins in one hand, a whip in another hand, and a tablet with a hammer and scythe under his arm.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1938_DerEwigeJude_FH229442.jpg?h=b5e7ecd0&itok=qprTVSm1)
Jewish Children of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France
These Jewish children were sheltered by the Protestant population of the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in France. 1941.
![A group of Jewish children pose outside in the town of Le Chambon.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1941_JewishChildreninLeChambonsurLignon_FH2169583.jpg?h=a0999a6b&itok=VLXVH_Rj)
LA Mural Commemorating the Armenian Genocide
Artist Arutyun Gozukuchikyan, who goes by the name ArtViaArt, painted this mural in 2015 in Los Angeles's Little Armenia neighborhood to foster public awareness of the Armenian Genocide.
![A mural features an elderly woman with a piece of tape over her mouth with "1915" written on it.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-06/Armenian_Genocide_mural_card.jpg?h=707772c7&itok=teSTLdve)
Map of South Africa Showing British Possessions, July 1885
This map illustrates territorial boundaries and colonial possessions in southern Africa in the late nineteenth-century.
![South Africa divided and colored based on free territories (Transvaal, Orange Free State, Stella Land) and British possessions (Cape Colony, Griqua Land West, Griqua Land East, Natal, Basuto Land, Bechuanaland).](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1885_MapSouthAfricaBritishPossessions_FH281152.jpg?h=2d839f00&itok=vdlgsUCm)
The Social Reality of Race
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Is race a social construct? An American living in the Netherlands is faced with this question when she encounters the Dutch's definition of who is "black."
![Artist Glenn Ligon created Untitled: Four Etchings [B] using a quotation from writer Zora Neale Hurston’s essay, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/D15968_Medium_res.jpg?h=c15025bd&itok=EIHlZetq)
Student Activities: The Supreme Court, Trust, and Political Partisanship
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These student-facing slides help students learn about the recent decline in public trust in the Supreme Court and the history of partisan politics in the Court.
![Women's Rights Protest Outside Of The US Supreme Court In The Wake Of The Roe Vs. Wade Majority Opinion Being Leaked.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-10/sarah-penney-FmaOo3ISIME-unsplash.jpg?h=71976bb4&itok=y2rRHbIN)