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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.
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Teaching Mockingbird: Images
These photographs were taken by Walker Evans in the 1930s for the Farm Security Administration of the United States Government. The government established the FSA to help document the reality and effects of the Great Depression on farmers and communities in the rural South.
Whole-School Read Guide: Foster a Literacy Community
This planning guide will help you design and implement a Whole-School Read that centers students’ voices and experiences.
Glenn Ligon's Untitled: Four Etchings
Artist Glenn Ligon created Untitled: Four Etchings using quotations from writer Zora Neale Hurston's essay, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" and Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man.
T.O. Jones
Learn about T.O. Jones, a sanitation worker who led the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike in 1968.
Our Kind of People
Explore how the choices individuals make about clothing affect how others perceive them with Bayeté Ross Smith’s 2010 photography series.
Rabbi James A. Wax
Learn about Rabbi James A Wax, Senior Rabbi at Temple Israel in Memphis from 1954 to 1978.
Jose Guerrero
Learn about Jose Guerrero, a grassroots activist instrumental in the founding of Latino Memphis.
Propaganda Posters
Have students analyze these examples of Nazi propaganda using the Crop It teaching strategy.
Roman Vishniac Gallery Walk
The images in this gallery are taken by Roman Vishniac during the Holocaust and are used for a Gallery Walk teaching strategy.
Territorial Changes of the Ottoman Empire 1817 - 1913
View a series of maps highlighting changes to the Ottoman Empire in green.