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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.
Limiting Opportunity
This reading covers an excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, where Malcolm Little's teacher told him his race limited the career opportunities available to him.
Challenging Racist Assumptions
This reading contains an excerpt of Horace Mann Bond's response to the racist ideas put forward in Carl Brigham’s A Study of American Intelligence.
Finding One's Voice
Julius Lester describes finding his identity in an unexpected place as an African American teenager living in the segregated South.
Doors to Opportunity
Read about the experiences of two young immigrants to the United States in the late 1800s and how race shaped the kind of education to each of them.
Capture of Jewish Resistance Fighters
Jewish resistance fighters who fought against the SS and German army during the Warsaw ghetto uprising between April 19 and May 16, 1943, are captured.
Racism and Intelligence Test Scores
Learn more about the history of intelligence tests and how test results were used to help justify discrimination in the 1900s.
Pre-war Jewish Life in Europe
Explore photographs depicting the everyday life of European Jews between World War I and World War II.
Pre-War Jewish Life in Eastern Europe
Explore photographs of the everyday lives of European Jews living in shtetls and larger cities before World War II.
The Auschwitz Album Visual Essay
View a famous collection of photographs from the Holocaust of a transport arriving in Auschwitz from Hungary in early summer 1944.
Pre-War Sighet Visual Essay
Enrich your reading of Night with photos depicting daily life in Elie Wiesel's hometown.
Defining Race
Consider the consequences of who defines race through reflections from individuals who have struggled with the US government's legal definition of their race.