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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.
Anti-Judaism before the Enlightenment
Deepen your understanding of the history of antisemitism with this overview of the persecution, violence, and restrictions Jews throughout Europe faced during the Middle Ages.
![A contemporary drawing of the Hep! Hep! riots in Frankfurt am Main in 1819. Notice that both men and women participated in the violence.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2015_HepHepRiots_FH147029.jpg?h=68d52520&itok=QlgzjK49)
Breeding Society’s "Fittest"
Learn how people in the late nineteenth-century used race science, social Darwinism, and eugenics to justify their ideas about membership.
![The Nazis used public displays to spread their ideas of race. The chart shown here is titled "The Biology of Growth," and is labeled "Stages of Growth for Members of the Nordic Race."](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2022_Stages_of_Growth_for_Members_of_the_Nordic_Race_FH2173574.jpg?h=4ef8ed75&itok=8_9e8SNU)
Creating the German Nation
Read about the confluence of nationalism, race science, and German-unification efforts in mid-eighteenth-century German society.
![Germania, painted by Philipp Veit in 1848, was a symbol of the German nation during the revolutions of 1848–49 and in later years.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch02_Image07.jpg?h=af65be21&itok=QpBQpuIJ)
"Expansion Was Everything"
Read about nineteenth-century Imperialism, the Congress of Berlin, and W. E. B. Du Bois’ analysis of the profound consequences of Europe's colonization of Africa.
![Sketch of a European imperialist standing with legs straddled and arms out.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch02_Image06.png?h=f64886a2&itok=l90yjBTr)
The Science of Race
Read about the seventeenth- and eighteenth- century scientists who tried to prove that humankind is divided into separate and unequal races.
![The Nazis used public displays to spread their ideas of race. The chart shown here is titled "The Biology of Growth," and is labeled "Stages of Growth for Members of the Nordic Race."](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2022_Stages_of_Growth_for_Members_of_the_Nordic_Race_FH2173574.jpg?h=4ef8ed75&itok=8_9e8SNU)
Understanding Strangers
Journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski traces back to the earliest family-tribes and discusses how human beings either cooperate or divide with “the other."
![Abstract image of friends.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2014_friends_FH129352.jpg?h=d9c90c06&itok=awSArrUF)
10 Questions Framework: Questions for the Past
Students apply the 10 Questions Framework to 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott.
![Crowd fills LaSalle Street between City Hall and building housing Board of Education as hundreds of demonstrators marched in Chicago on Oct. 22, 1963 following a one-day boycott of public schools.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_1963_AfricanAmericanIntegrationAntiSchoolBoycott1963IL_FH2169828.jpg?h=12de4a96&itok=CAfhRaQg)
10 Questions Framework: Parkland Viewing Guide
Students apply the 10 Questions Framework to a video about the Parkland student movement.
![Millbrook High School students demonstrate against gun violence outside their school in Frederick County, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, following a school shooting in which over a dozen people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., one week ago. (Jeff Taylor/The Winchester Star via AP)](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_2018_StudentProtestAfterParkland_FH289815.jpg?h=ffeece36&itok=XUEFh1qx)
Quotations for Changemakers
Students reflect on quotes from activists about what it means to enact change.
10 Questions Framework: Questions for Me
Use this handout to help students understand how they can apply the 10 Questions Framework to their own life.
The Impact of the Earthquake in Syria and Turkey
Students read information about the earthquake and descriptions of its impacts on people in Syria and Turkey.
![Picture of Aftermath Of The Deadly Earthquake In Kahramanmaras.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/RTSG076X%20%281%29.jpg?h=15d58d62&itok=KXnIqORA)