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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.
Combating Confirmation Bias
Reporters and media professionals give suggestions for how to avoid our own biases when we consume news.
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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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Conspiracy Theories: Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah explains why the human mind is attracted to conspiracy theories.
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Heil Hitler: Confessions of a Hitler Youth
Alfons Heck recalls how he became a high-ranking member of the Hitler Youth. He talks about the importance of peer pressure and propaganda to Hitler's ability to recruit eight million German children to participate in the "war effort."
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How Journalists Minimize Bias
Journalists discuss the idea of bias and explain the processes they follow to combat bias in their reporting.
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American ID: Three Words
Individuals from around the world share three words that describe the United States.
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Changes at School under the Nazis
Kurt Klein, who emigrated from Walldorf, Germany, to the United States in 1937, recalls how Nazi policies and propaganda affected his life at school.
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Chicano! Episode 1: Quest for Homeland
This episode of Chicano! examines the beginnings of a national movement for social justice by profiling Reies Lopez Tijerina and the 1966–1967 land grant movement in New Mexico.
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Chicano! Episode 2: The Struggle in the Fields
This episode of Chicano! chronicles the efforts of farm workers to form a national labor union under the nonviolent leadership of César Chávez.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act
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A clip from a documentary that examines the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.
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Chicano! Episode 3: Taking Back the Schools
This episode of Chicano! paints a picture of the struggle to reform an education system that failed to properly education Mexican American students.
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