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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.
“Sovereignty cannot be conceived as the right to kill millions”
Raphael Lemkin was outraged when he heard that the mass murder of the Armenians went unpunished. He was haunted by the case of Soghomon Tehlirian—an Armenian survivor of the genocide who killed Mehmed Talaat, minister of the interior of the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey).
![A photograph of several delegates who signed the UN Genocide Convention Credit: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of United Nations](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-09/Lemkin_Ratification_Of_Genocide_Convention_FH131485.jpg?h=6db1c67f&itok=hEICVT3F)
Indigenous Canadian Woman on a Reserve
A portrait of an indigenous Canadian woman on a reserve, 1930.
![A woman stands in front of a small, run down wooden house.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Culture%26Identity_2015_Canadianwomanonreserve_FH24273.jpg?h=31c0c765&itok=QKtuMsIw)
The Lone Ranger
This image portrays the fictional Native American character, Tonto, in the 1930s radio show and 1970s television adaption, "The Lone Ranger."
![1950s film still from The Lone Ranger.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/LoneRanger_FH24271.jpg?h=c17ae58b&itok=H4AKnQtV)
A General's Responsibility: Matsui, Nanjing, and the Tokyo Trial
Scholar Beth Van Schaack discusses General Matsui Iwane’s involvement in the Nanjing atrocities.
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The Changing Geography of the Ottoman Empire (1300–1920)
Maps showing the growth and contraction of territory controlled by the Ottoman Empire from 1300 through 1920.
Sewing Class at Shubenacadie Indian Residential School
Mi’kmaq girls are in a sewing class at Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia in 1929.
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Students at Fort Simpson Residential School
Students at the Fort Simpson School in the Northwest Territories in 1922 hold up letters that spell “Goodbye.”
![Young boys in top hats and girls in dresses are standing in a line, each holding up a letter.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Culture_2022_FortSimpsonResidentialSchool_FH24276.png?h=89357a44&itok=wOAtV0Wg)
Sun Dance Ceremony
The annual Sun Dance ceremony at the Blood Indian Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta.
![Two men wearing feathered and beaded headwear and clothing celebrate the sundance.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1953_SunDanceCeremony_FH24267.png?h=1efa62dd&itok=EEYQ5zCt)