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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.
Race Science Class
Students being taught race science in a classroom setting while using Jews as examples.
While this classroom studied “race science,” Jewish students were forced to stand at the front of the room. The blackboard says, “The Jew is our greatest enemy.”
Samuel Bak, The Creation of Wartime III, 1999–2008
Artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak's depiction of the relationship between God and human invokes imagery from Michelangelo's famous The Creation of Adam.
Shabbtai Sonenso and Teacher
Shabbtai (Shepske) Sonenso takes one of the shtetl's Hebrew teachers for a ride on his new motorcycle, 1941.
The French Bishops' Protest Against the Nazi Occupation in France and the Vel' d'Hiv Police Roundup
Scholar Aliza Luft discusses how French bishops reacted to the growing hostility towards Jews in occupied France during World War II.
Pardon/Franchise Engravings by Thomas Nast
Wood engravings by Thomas Nast depict the tension between the demands of healing and justice during the Reconstruction era.
Pre-War Jewish Family
A Jewish family, possibly in Sighet, taken before the beginning of World War II, ca. 1930–1940.
At the River I Stand
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This film reconstructs the events that led to the climax of the Civil Rights Movement.
Part Four: Interracial Democracy
Scholars discuss how African Americans and whites initially worked together within Reconstruction governments.
Shoes on the Danube Bank Memorial
Sixty pairs of shoes mark the site in Budapest, Hungary, where fascist Arrow Cross militiamen shot Jews and threw their bodies into the river in 1944 and 1945.