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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.
We Need a New American Founding (en español)
In Spanish, Scholar Eddie S. Glaude draws from the history of Reconstruction and the the Civil Rights movement to call for a “new American founding.”
![The image of late Rep. John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is projected on the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/John_Lewis_Projected_Lee_Monument_Richmond_2020_FH2133438.jpg?h=31c0c765&itok=0SZs7dfW)
The Battle of Cable Street Mural
The Battle of Cable Street mural depicts details from the confrontation between anti-Fascist demonstrators and Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts in London's East End.
![Full view of the Battle of Cable Street Mural](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-09/The_Battle_Cable_Street_Mural_%20FH2116829.jpg?h=0c5dc449&itok=3_gcj0L3)
A General Store Interior in Moundville, Alabama
This photo of the interior of an Alabama general store was taken in the summer of 1936.
![An old country store contains sacks of food and other items for purchase.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/4_General_store_interior%2C_Moundville%2C_AL.jpg?h=987fc4f6&itok=eilmO6C6)
African American man Farming in Mississippi, 1936
Near Tupelo, Mississippi, an African American man farms in a field, 1936.
![FARMING IN TULEPO, MISSISSIPPI](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/1936_FarmingInTulepoMississippi_FH131404.png?h=64610b7d&itok=W_5P0-Gw)
Names and Identity
What does your name say about you? Use this essay by Chinese American teenager Jennifer Wang to explore the relationship between name and identity.
![A high school student writes on a piece of paper.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/StudentinClassroom.jpg?h=2992ba0a&itok=BSyOt4Mw)
Names and Identity
What does your name say about you? Use this essay by Chinese American teenager Jennifer Wang to explore the relationship between name and identity.
![Photograph by James Luna.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/HHB_Chapter_2_Medium_res.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=OtysDNT5)
Caroline Hunter Boycott Polaroid
Caroline Hunter, co-founder of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, wears a “No Bullshit, Boycott Polaroid” campaign button, advocating against Polaroid’s contract with the Apartheid government in South Africa.
![Caroline Hunter wears a “No Bullshit, Boycott Polaroid” campaign button.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/2018_CarolineHunterBoycottPolaroid_FH282021.jpg?h=7784dd4d&itok=AQ66r1aS)
Finding One's Voice
Julius Lester describes finding his identity in an unexpected place as an African American teenager living in the segregated South.
![Artist Glenn Ligon created Untitled: Four Etchings [B] using a quotation from writer Zora Neale Hurston’s essay, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/D15968_Medium_res.jpg?h=c15025bd&itok=EIHlZetq)
Finding One's Voice (en español)
In Spanish, Julius Lester describes finding his identity in an unexpected place as an African American teenager living in the segregated South.
![Artist Glenn Ligon created Untitled: Four Etchings [B] using a quotation from writer Zora Neale Hurston’s essay, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/D15968_Medium_res.jpg?h=c15025bd&itok=EIHlZetq)