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![A group of high school students sit at desks in conversation.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-10/AdobeStock_254378868.jpg?itok=f6YAphey)
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.
Fritz Mackensen, Der Saeugling (The Baby), 1892
Mackensen’s work represents a more traditional style of art that many Germans were familiar with before World War I. This painting was featured in the 1937 Great German Art Exhibition in Munich, sponsored by the Nazis. See full-sized image for analysis.
![Mackensen’s work represents a more traditional style of art that many Germans were familiar with before World War I. This painting was featured in the 1937 Great German Art Exhibition in Munich sponsored by the Nazis.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image01_Medium_res.jpg?h=870af43d&itok=0Bj2YvfE)
Fur Trade
Europeans and Indigenous Peoples of Canada interacted through the fur trade for almost 300 years. This photo is from the 1950s, when the extensiveness of the trade network had much declined from its peak in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
![Men on a street look at fur.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1942_CanadianFurTrade_FH24266.jpg?h=1c53af67&itok=7dEtvATW)
La traite des fourrures
Le commerce des fourrures a permis aux Européens et aux Peuples Autochtones du Canada d’interagir pendant près de 300 ans. Cette photographie date des années 1950, moment où l’étendue du réseau commercial avait beaucoup diminué par rapport à son apogée aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.
![Men on a street look at fur.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1942_CanadianFurTrade_FH24266.jpg?h=1c53af67&itok=7dEtvATW)
Finding Confidence
A young woman describes her journey overcoming an inner bully and fear of being different.
![Sample identity chart.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Sample%20Identity%20Chart.jpg?h=73950368&itok=I6qebs7v)
Finding Confidence (en español)
In Spanish, a young woman describes her journey overcoming an inner bully and fear of being different.
![Sample identity chart.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Sample%20Identity%20Chart.jpg?h=73950368&itok=I6qebs7v)
Les excuses du premier ministre Harper
Les excuses faisaient partie du processus organisé par le gouvernement et les Premières Nations en tant que signataires de l'entente; il s'agissait d'une tentative d'aborder le rôle du gouvernement dans l'histoire des pensionnats autochtones.
![Graphic from cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/SL_graphic5.png?h=bc3345c8&itok=_uc8CaVR)
Pre-War Jewish Family
A Jewish family, possibly in Sighet, taken before the beginning of World War II, ca. 1930–1940.
![Family portrait with children, parents, and grandparents. Taken circa 1930-1940.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1930_GroupPortraitofaPrewarJewishFamily_FH260052.jpg?h=eb24755d&itok=uUQRs7GI)
Faith Despite a Broken World
Read personal reflections on retaining faith after the Holocaust from Jewish scholars and writers.
![Three hands holding the Hasma, the Star of David, and the Cross.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-09/2006_Sumbolsofthethreemonotheisticfaiths_FH127109.jpg?h=7685ba0d&itok=6AzAV4-0)
Rohingya Refugees
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled persecution in Myanmar since 2017, often traveling to neighboring Bangladesh.
![Members of Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority walk through rice fields after crossing the border into Bangladesh near Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/2017_RohingyaRefugees_FH261963.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=nEhl1UhO)
The Danger of a Single Story
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie challenges us to consider the power of stories to influence identity, shape stereotypes, and build paths to empathy.
![Fragmented images of a human face.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Ch01_Image07_Medium_res.jpg?h=d2de68a6&itok=T0WiNJDv)