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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.
Facing History & Ourselves Civic Knowledge Research Project
This guide provides prompts and strategies for the written Research Project component of New York State’s Seal of Civic Readiness.
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Custom and Conscience: Margot Stern Strom reflects on growing up in Memphis, TN in the 1950s
Margot Stern Strom, the founder and President Emerita of Facing History & Ourselves, describes growing up in Jim Crow-era Memphis.
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How We Respond to Images
Journalists, media professionals, and a high school student discuss the different ways that people respond to the news, including a particular photo taken during a Ferguson protest.
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Hoxie: The First Stand
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This film tells the story of the school integration battle in Hoxie, Arkansas.
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I Had Come Face to Face with Evil: Leon Bass Talks about his Experiences of Racism
Leon Bass describes his encounters with racism when he joined for the U.S. Army in 1943.
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Forgetting Isn't Healing
Jouranlist Sonari Glinton connects Elie Wiesel’s teachings on bearing witness to his own experiences as a Black man in the United States.
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Freedom on My Mind
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This video tells the story of the Mississippi Voter Registration Project in the 1960s.
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Analyzing Monuments to Japanese American Incarceration
This handout contains prompts that students can use to analyze a monument to Japanese American incarceration.
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Photos of the Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II
This handout contains photos of the Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II in Washington, DC.
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Word Choice and Japanese American Incarceration
This handout helps students learn about the language advocated by survivors' groups to describe Japanese American incarceration.
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Goin' to Chicago
Participants of 'The Great Migration' discuss their lives and their reasons for migrating.
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