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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.
Sample Facing History Classroom Expectations
Help students get started creating their own classroom contract by responding to these sample expectations.
![Sample Classroom Expectations Document Preview](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-12/SampleFacingHistoryClassroomExpectations.png?h=d3d13267&itok=P4MI3kZf)
Between Peace and War
Consider why some Europeans changed their anti-war stance when World War I officially began, and why others like conscientious objectors continued to oppose the war.
![Photo of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II posing in uniform.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image07_Medium_res.jpg?h=7101d55d&itok=pRrU0J5d)
Japanese Woodblock Print, 1861
This Japanese print is titled “Foreigner and Wrestler at Yokohama." It depicts a sumo wrestler, representing Japan, confronting "foreign" opponents.
![Sumo wrestler throwing a foreigner at Yokohama.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/Foreigner_and_Wrestler_at_Yokohama_1861.jpg?h=ce1ab32c&itok=qnw5To10)
CPS Letter to Parents and Guardians: The Reconstruction Era
Use this letter to inform parents and guardians about what their students will be experiencing in the weeks to come during their study of Reconstruction .
Timeline of Major Events in Japan, 1853–1919
Introduce students to nineteenth-century Japanese history and the country's response to Western imperialism.
![Vehicles of the Japanese Navy enter the port of Nanking, and thus support with their guns the arrival of tank regiments from the land side.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H30040%2C_Japanisch-Chinesischer_Krieg.jpg?h=048697cd&itok=QWqUzmfp)
CPS HHB Letter to Parents and Guardians
Use this letter to inform parents and guardians about what their students will be experiencing in the weeks to come during their study of Holocaust and Human Behavior.
Letter to Parents | CPS Choices in Little Rock
Use this letter to inform parents and guardians about what their students will be experiencing in the weeks to come during their study of Choices in Little Rock.
![Student looks at a Facing History & Ourselves handout](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-02/SL_190522_0543.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=WFEq16e-)
Timeline of Major Events in China, 1839–1919
Introduce students to nineteenth-century Chinese history and the country's response to Western imperialism.
![Battle at Wangjiakou,1854. The Taiping Army had been retreating from the north since February 5 when they started leaving Duliu and headed back to Nanking. The Qing Army commanded by Prince Sanga Rinsin,lay an ambushed in the town of Wangjiakou,ten milesfrom Duliu and routed the rebels. From Ten scenes recording the retreat and defeat of the Taiping Northern Expeditionary Forces,February 1854-March 1855.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/Qing_ambush_Taiping_Army_at_Wangjiakou_1854.jpg?h=f229d2e1&itok=yKfx-NIA)
Connecting to Our Past
Jin Xuefei’s poem and Charlene Wang’s anecdote show how the context in which we understand our past can shape how we understand ourselves today.
![Wong Family at the Great Wall of China.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/Wong_Family_Great_Wall_of_China_FH2ORD11858.jpg?h=7cee16b4&itok=YrZgOm_i)
The Outbreak of World War II in East Asia Documents
Students investigate these primary and secondary sources in order to understand the underlying causes of the outbreak of World War II in Asia.
![The Japanese Aggression and China's National Liberation Struggle Against the Agressors 1931-1939 Japanese troops taking Nanking. Ann .: January 1938](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/FH147161.jpg?h=24afd704&itok=mCNwOQPK)
10 Questions Framework: Questions for the Past
Students apply the 10 Questions Framework to 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott.
![Crowd fills LaSalle Street between City Hall and building housing Board of Education as hundreds of demonstrators marched in Chicago on Oct. 22, 1963 following a one-day boycott of public schools.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_1963_AfricanAmericanIntegrationAntiSchoolBoycott1963IL_FH2169828.jpg?h=12de4a96&itok=CAfhRaQg)