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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.
Graffiti Boards
This classroom video shows a high school class using the Graffiti Board strategy as a brainstorming tool in preparation for their "Action Project."
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The United States Enters World War II
Examine the history of the United States' entrance into World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
![Jews wearing Star of David badges in the LĂłdz ghetto. Established in 1940, the Germans crowded 160,000 Jews from the Polish city, more than a third of its population, into the ghetto.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1940_JewsInTheLodzGhetto_%20FH229466.jpg?h=afb0b43a&itok=_7RMUlTN)
"Unworthy to Live"
Learn about the Nazis’ medical killing program that was responsible for the murder of mentally and physically disabled people during World War II.
![An exhibit at a Berlin school persuades Germans to help colonize the Warthegau area of Poland. The exhibit says “The land calls you!,” and the painting shows a settler’s car passing by a Polish border sign that has been knocked down.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_ExhibitGermanysColonizationPoland_%20FH229464.jpg?h=83b6248d&itok=71GQUBqx)
Introducing the Weimar Republic
In this classroom video, students read about and discuss the Weimar Republic using primary source readings from Holocaust and Human Behavior.
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Memory and Legacy: Preparing to Learn from Descendants of Holocaust Survivors
In this classroom video, explore how framing a lesson around the importance of memory using classroom discussion and journaling can prepare students to learn from survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants.
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Adolf Hitler During 1932 Campaign
Adolf Hitler talks to a young girl during his campaign for president of Germany in 1932. Hitler lost to incumbent Paul von Hindenburg.
![Adolf Hitler has his hand placed on a young girl in a white dress as he speaks with her](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Ch04_Image17_Medium_res.jpg?h=8f85ebe8&itok=4T71wftn)
Adolf Hitler, 1924
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in 1924. In the early 1920s, Hitler was attracting thousands of new members to the Nazi Party.
![Portrait of Adolf Hitler in a brown trenchcoat, shirt, and tie.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Ch04_Image16_Medium_res.jpg?h=8f84f9a1&itok=JLVoClZ0)
Book Burning in Berlin
Students contribute anti-German books to be destroyed at a Berlin book-burning on May 10, 1933. About 40,000 people attended the event.
![Crowds of young men are adding books to a dumpster to be destroyed at a Berlin book-burning.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Book%20Burning%20in%20Berlin.jpg?h=743bf4af&itok=y962Ef7g)
Bar Mitzvah at Zerrennerstrasse Synagogue
A bar mitzvah at the liberal Zerrennerstrasse synagogue in Pforzheim, Germany, 1936.
![Boy reads Torah while surrounded by adults during bar mitzvah](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Bar%20Mitzvah%20at%20Zerrennerstrasse%20Synagogue.jpg?h=048697cd&itok=9qzQhHYf)
Confiscation of Prisoners’ Belongings
These men were determined fit enough to perform hard labor. Their heads were shaved and their clothes replaced with prison uniforms.
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