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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.
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.
![Photograph by James Luna.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/HHB_Chapter_2_Medium_res.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=OtysDNT5)
Talking About Religion
Eboo Patel reflects on how religion impacts his identity and a time in his past when he was a bystander.
![Three hands holding the Hasma, the Star of David, and the Cross.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-09/2006_Sumbolsofthethreemonotheisticfaiths_FH127109.jpg?h=7685ba0d&itok=6AzAV4-0)
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.
![Men in uniforms surround a line of young Boy Scouts.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image01_Medium_res.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=BA0VRtY1)
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)
A Commandant’s View
Get insight into how a commander at a Nazi death camp viewed his victims and coped with his actions.
![SS guards portrait at Dachau Concentration Camp](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_SSGuardsPortraitAtDachau_%20FH220823.jpg?h=958cf23b&itok=19XN9g0g)
A Commandant’s View (en español)
In Spanish, get insight into how a commander at a Nazi death camp viewed his victims and coped with his actions.
![SS guards portrait at Dachau Concentration Camp](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_SSGuardsPortraitAtDachau_%20FH220823.jpg?h=958cf23b&itok=19XN9g0g)
The Death Marches
Learn how the Germans tried to hide evidence of their mass murder toward the end of World War II by evacuating prisoners from camps.
![The start of the selection process, in front of the camp's entrance. Some prisoners who had already been at the camp a while assist in sorting the new arrivals.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_TheStartOfTheSelectionProcess_%20FH260049.jpg?h=827069f2&itok=jaQGDMjo)
The Difference between Knowing and Believing
Consider why some world leaders responded with disbelief to testimonies of the mass killings the Nazis were carrying out in Europe during World War II.
![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)
Difficult Choices in Poland
Consider how two people in occupied-Poland responded to the persecution and murder of Jews in their community.
![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)
Diplomats and the Choice to Rescue
Read the stories of two diplomats who chose to use their status to rescue Jews from the Nazis during World War II.
![Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst in June 1942.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_WhiteRoseResistanceGroup_FH229473.jpg?h=dfc3751c&itok=BjXT-amv)