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![A group of high school students sit at desks in conversation.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-10/AdobeStock_254378868.jpg?itok=f6YAphey)
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.
Mines in South Africa
Explore the responses by leaders of the African National Congress to the new Union of South Africa government’s racially motivated Native Lands Act of 1913.
![In 1887 and 1888, Cecil Rhodes consolidated a number of individual diamond mine claims around Kimberley to form a single company called De Beers Consolidated Mines.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_18850101_DeBeersDiamondMineca1885_%20FH281147.jpg?h=94780249&itok=8PQyBwsl)
My Name
Consider the importance of African naming practices in South African poet Magoleng wa Selepe’s poem about the effects of colonialism on African identity.
![This Tswana-Venda wedding demonstrates the continued importance of traditional culture in contemporary South African society.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_2018_TswanaandVendaWedding_%20FH281155.jpg?h=4c3b389f&itok=V-EjaKiW)
Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto
Learn about the Oyneg Shabes, a group in the Warsaw ghetto that documented Nazi crimes and the daily lives of the ghetto's residents.
![The Jewish population in Poland being "resettled" by German soldiers, circa 1940-41.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1940_ResettlingPolishJewsInGermany_%20FH229688.jpg?h=b82ee7a4&itok=ZTl0ABqr)
Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto (en español)
Learn about the Oyneg Shabes, a group in the Warsaw ghetto that documented Nazi crimes and the daily lives of the ghetto's residents. This resource is in Spanish.
![The Jewish population in Poland being "resettled" by German soldiers, circa 1940-41.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1940_ResettlingPolishJewsInGermany_%20FH229688.jpg?h=b82ee7a4&itok=ZTl0ABqr)
Waging a Racial War
Consider how Nazi Germany's ideas about race determined how they treated soldiers, prisoners, and civilians during World War II.
![The Jewish population in Poland being "resettled" by German soldiers, circa 1940-41.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1940_ResettlingPolishJewsInGermany_%20FH229688.jpg?h=b82ee7a4&itok=ZTl0ABqr)
The War against Poland: Speed and Brutality
Examine how Nazi Germany's army targeted both the Polish army and the people of Poland as it waged war.
![The Jewish population in Poland being "resettled" by German soldiers, circa 1940-41.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1940_ResettlingPolishJewsInGermany_%20FH229688.jpg?h=b82ee7a4&itok=ZTl0ABqr)
The War against Poland: Speed and Brutality (en español)
Examine how Nazi Germany's army targeted both the Polish army and the people of Poland as it waged war. This resource is in Spanish.
![The Jewish population in Poland being "resettled" by German soldiers, circa 1940-41.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1940_ResettlingPolishJewsInGermany_%20FH229688.jpg?h=b82ee7a4&itok=ZTl0ABqr)
The War on Jews in Poland
Build your understanding of the Nazis’ devastating treatment of the Jews in Poland during the German occupation.
![Kurt Dreyer, a German soldier who fought in World War II.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_KurtDreyerDuringWorldWarII_%20FH229468.jpg?h=d93328de&itok=b5Q15BDy)
Choiceless Choices
Consider the experiences of Jewish prisoners who were forced to help German guards murder other prisoners.
![Three members of the Jewish Fighting Organization caught after the Warsaw ghetto uprising.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_WarsawGhettoUprisingResisters_FH229471.jpg?h=54e89a37&itok=2wF9NwaG)
Choiceless Choices (en español)
Consider the experiences of Jewish prisoners who were forced to help German guards murder other prisoners. This resource is in Spanish.
![Three members of the Jewish Fighting Organization caught after the Warsaw ghetto uprising.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_WarsawGhettoUprisingResisters_FH229471.jpg?h=54e89a37&itok=2wF9NwaG)
Deciding to Act
Marion Prichard reflects on rescue, heroism, and the choices she and others in German-occupied Amsterdam made during the Holocaust.
![Marion Pritchard holds Erika Polak, one of the children she saved from the Nazis. Working with the Dutch resistance, Pritchard helped save more than 150 children during World War II.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_MarionPritchard_%20FH229480.jpg?h=22294cb3&itok=dlCxu8XS)