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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 Birth of a Nation" Summarizes Reconstruction
Title cards, or intertitles, from The Birth of a Nation, a 1915 film portraying D.W. Griffith's racist vision of life in the South during the Civil war era.
![Title cards, or intertitles, from The Birth of a Nation, a 1915 film portraying D.W. Griffith's racist vision of life in the South during the Civil war era.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1915_TheBirthofaNationtitlecardsdescribingReconstruction_FH2169421.png?h=ca3390b1&itok=EdxwGVd6)
Pre-War Jewish Family
A Jewish family, possibly in Sighet, taken before the beginning of World War II, ca. 1930–1940.
![Family portrait with children, parents, and grandparents. Taken circa 1930-1940.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1930_GroupPortraitofaPrewarJewishFamily_FH260052.jpg?h=eb24755d&itok=uUQRs7GI)
Rohingya Refugees
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled persecution in Myanmar since 2017, often traveling to neighboring Bangladesh.
![Members of Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority walk through rice fields after crossing the border into Bangladesh near Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/2017_RohingyaRefugees_FH261963.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=nEhl1UhO)
The Battle of Cable Street Mural
The Battle of Cable Street mural depicts details from the confrontation between anti-Fascist demonstrators and Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts in London's East End.
![Full view of the Battle of Cable Street Mural](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-09/The_Battle_Cable_Street_Mural_%20FH2116829.jpg?h=0c5dc449&itok=3_gcj0L3)
A Cabin in Hale County, Alabama During the Great Depression
A cabin where an African American family lived, in Hale County, Alabama during the Great Depression.
![A cabin where an African American family lived, in rural Hale County, Alabama during the Great Depression.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/5_Negro_cabin%2C_Hale_County%2C_AL.jpg?h=54dfc285&itok=Oh_qn6Vu)
A General Store Interior in Moundville, Alabama
This photo of the interior of an Alabama general store was taken in the summer of 1936.
![An old country store contains sacks of food and other items for purchase.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/4_General_store_interior%2C_Moundville%2C_AL.jpg?h=987fc4f6&itok=eilmO6C6)
African American man Farming in Mississippi, 1936
Near Tupelo, Mississippi, an African American man farms in a field, 1936.
![FARMING IN TULEPO, MISSISSIPPI](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/1936_FarmingInTulepoMississippi_FH131404.png?h=64610b7d&itok=W_5P0-Gw)
Battle of the Somme Film
From the 1915 propaganda film The Battle of the Somme showing a soldier rescuing a comrade under fire. Although the documentary included staged scenes, this frame was taken from a real combat scene.
![A Still image from the 1915 propaganda film The Battle of Somme. A World War I soldier carries a body on his back.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/The_Battle_of_the_Somme_film_image2.jpg?h=8e8edc7c&itok=lXwsRCvH)
Bud Fields and Family
Sharecropper Bud Fields and his family at their home in Hale County, Alabama, in the mid-1930s.
![Three adults and three children pose for the photo in a small room, circa mid-1930s.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/3_Bud_Fields_and_his_family_--_Alabama_Sharecroppers.jpg?h=df3f433b&itok=Ah5ayqiO)