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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.
Complicity and Cultural Figures in the Third Reich: Navigating the Grey Zone
Jonathan Petropoulos discusses the choices four German artists made under Nazi rule.
We the People in the United States
Learn how the US Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the law has been questioned throughout US history in debates over issues such as women's right to vote and birthright citizenship.
Mobile Killing Units
Dr. Kutorgene write about what had happened in Kovno as the Nazis prepared to murder the Jews in the ghetto there.
We May Not Have Another Chance
This handout can be used to distribute a reading from the perspective of Holocaust survivor Sonia Weitz to your students.
Diary from the Łódź Ghetto
Allow students to reflect on a range of experiences and stories from the Holocaust in a Big Paper silent discussion.
Perpetrators, Bystanders, Upstanders, and Rescuers
Help students analyze an assigned reading about an individual in Nazi Germany, focusing on choices, motivations, and consequences.
Who Is Human?
Consider the conflict in eighteenth-century US and France between the Enlightenment ideal of equality and the existence of deep social inequalities like slavery.
An Overview of the Nuremberg Trials
Students learn about key events from the Nuremberg Trials and connect them to their opinions about justice after the Holocaust.
1914: War or Peace?
Consider how nationalism and militarism in Europe in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries contributed to the outbreak of World War I.
Survivors and Memory Jigsaw
Students use this handout to complete a jigsaw activity using survivor testimony.
Countering the Single Story
To explore the concept of "single stories," student create an identity chart for a community to which they belong.