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Find compelling classroom resources, learn new teaching methods, meet standards, and make a difference in the lives of your students.
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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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Martha's Letter to Hastings
Read Martha Sharp's letter to her son explaining her reasons for remaining in France while her husband returned back to the United States.
Evian Conference cartoon, 1938
View the Evian Conference cartoon published by the New York Times on Sunday, July 3rd, 1938.
American Public Opinion Data
The following surveys and polling questions conducted between 1938-41 gauge US attitudes toward Jews. Findings showed that few Americans were vehemently antisemitic, but many felt that Jews had to be “kept in their place.”
America and the Holocaust
Learn about Americans' attitudes of fear and distrust toward Jewish refugees from Europe.
Building Connections and Strengthening Community Project
This project gives students an opportunity to champion the stories of individuals and groups in their school community that they believe have been told in a limited way.
Understanding Rescue: What Scholars Say
Learn more about the conclusions that scholars have drawn from other stories of upstanders
Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg
This image shows the Chief American Prosecutor, Justice Robert Jackson, speaking at Nuremberg Trials
The Eye of the Beholder
Question society’s ideas about “beauty” and “normality” with this written adaptation of a provocative episode from the television series, The Twilight Zone.
Chilean Arpillera
Subversive women’s art created to express opposition to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet
This arpillera was created by Violeta Morales. The faceless figures next to the women represent the missing victims who dared to oppose Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, from 1973 to 1990. See full-sized image for analysis.