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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.
Anti-Black, Anti-Jewish Ideology of National States Rights Party
Have students analyze an FBI report from the 1970s on a white supremacist party as part of a jigsaw activity.
National States Rights Party Membership Application
Have students analyze this application to a white supremacist party founded in the 1950s as part of a jigsaw activity.
Protestors Carrying Flags at 2017 Unite the Right Rally
Have students analyze a photo of demonstrators at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville as part of a jigsaw activity.
Unite the Right Rally Big Paper Sources
Use these photos and quotations from the 2017 Unite the Right to facilitate a silent conversation with your students about the events.
Hatred Data Fact Sheet
Have students analyze statistics about antisemitic attitudes in the United States as part of a jigsaw activity.
Combating Confirmation Bias
Reporters and media professionals give suggestions for how to avoid our own biases when we consume news.
Student Activities: Disability Rights and the Legacy of Judy Heumann’s Activism
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Learn about Judy Heumann’s life and legacy and explore ways to continue to advance disability rights.
Student Activities: Decorum and Sanctioning Representatives Jones, Pearson, and Zephyr
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These student-facing slides help students understand recent events in the Tennessee and Montana state legislatures and consider the implications of using rules of decorum to sanction state representatives.
Introduction: Before Apartheid
Understand the origins of racial and ethnic division and discrimination between native South African tribes, the first European settlers, and later European colonizers in the South African region.
Sanctions Against Representatives Pearson, Jones, and Zephyr
This reading contains information about the state representatives in Tennessee and Montana who were excluded from their legislatures.
Introduction: Early Apartheid: 1948-1970
Study the National Party’s implementation of strict racial laws, the forms of defiance by black South Africans and other minority groups, and the government’s harsh reaction to this defiance.