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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 Brown Decision (en español)
This document gives students the immediate historical context of the Till murder by summarizing the segregationist reaction to the Brown decision and the emergence of White Citizens’ Councils in Mississippi. This resource is in Spanish.
Quotes from the Mississippi Constitutional Convention 1890
This source includes quotes from delegates at the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention asserting the desire to create a government to uphold white supremacy.
Quotes from the Mississippi Constitutional Convention 1890 (en español)
This source includes quotes from delegates at the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention asserting the desire to create a government to uphold white supremacy. This resource is in Spanish.
African American and White Voter Registration in Louisiana (1878 -2010)
This graph shows the strategies that white Southern legislators used to disenfranchise African Americans during the Jim Crow era.
African American and White Voter Registration in Louisiana (1878 -2010) (en español)
This graph shows the strategies that white Southern legislators used to disenfranchise African Americans during the Jim Crow era. This resource is in Spanish.
Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour: Unit Overview
This unit overview gives you a brief summary of all of the lessons in the unit and lists the materials needed alongside the main activities.
Civic Agency and the Pursuit of Democracy
This elective, designed for New York’s Seal of Civic Readiness, intertwines the history of US Reconstruction, current events, and civic participation.
“I’m Not the Indian You Had in Mind”
Thomas King's poem explores the difference between stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples and how these people live their lives in contemporary Canada.
« Je ne suis pas l'Indien que vous imaginiez »
Thomas King explore la différence entre les images et les stéréotypes sur les Peuples Autochtones et la façon dont ces peuples vivent réellement leur vie dans le Canada moderne.
What Is a Hate Crime and How Do Hate Crimes Impact People?
This explainer helps students understand what hate crimes are and the impact they can have on individuals and communities.
Freedom on My Mind
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This video tells the story of the Mississippi Voter Registration Project in the 1960s.