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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 Age of Rights?
The anti-colonial movement was growing stronger around the world, and with the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the newly formed United Nations, many turned their attention to the rights of colonized people globally.
Gathering Anger
Responding with growing anger and assertiveness, indigenous activists rejected the idea of equal treatment before the law as simplistic at best. They argued that it was used to mask decades of accumulated material and political privileges for European Canadians acquired at the expense of Indigenous Peoples.
Apologies
Learn about the public apologies issued by several churches in the years following critical reports and testimony from residential school survivors.
The Government’s “Statement of Reconciliation”
Learn about the 1980s response of the Canadian government to the long-lasting effects of residential schools on indigenous communities.
The Charge of Genocide
In the 1990s, residential schools scholars and many indigenous leaders began to argue that the efforts of the Canadian government to assimilate the Indigenous Peoples in the residential schools embodied the principle of cultural genocide: assimilation was intended to destroy the Indigenous Peoples as culturally distinct group.
Prime Minister Harper’s Apology
The apology is part of the process arranged by the government and the First Nations as parties to the agreement, part of an overall attempt to address the government’s role in the history of the Indian Residential Schools.
We Need a New American Founding (en español)
In Spanish, Scholar Eddie S. Glaude draws from the history of Reconstruction and the the Civil Rights movement to call for a “new American founding.”
Our Kind of People (en español)
In Spanish, explore how the choices individuals make about clothing affect how others perceive them with Bayeté Ross Smith’s 2010 photography series.
Decision-Making in Times of Fear and Crisis (en español)
Help students analyze a reading about the choices made by a person or group during Kristallnacht. This resource is in Spanish.
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.
The Invention of the “Indian”
One of the first acts of the European colonization of the Americas was an act of naming or, more accurately, misnaming.