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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.
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.
![A cabin where an African American family lived, in rural Hale County, Alabama during the Great Depression.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/5_Negro_cabin%2C_Hale_County%2C_AL.jpg?h=54dfc285&itok=Oh_qn6Vu)
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.
![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)
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.
![Portrait of a man.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-10/Our_Kind_1_FH260750.jpg?h=c848f0b8&itok=RxHoKT_1)
Our Kind of People (en español)
In Spanish, explore how the choices individuals make about clothing affect how others perceive them with Bayeté Ross Smith’s 2010 photography series.
![Portrait of a man.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-10/Our_Kind_1_FH260750.jpg?h=c848f0b8&itok=RxHoKT_1)
The Battle of Cable Street
Explore images from the Battle of Cable Street of 1936, when thousands in East London stood in solidarity against Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.
![Crowd of demonstrators on a London street.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/DPAWA2_Medium_res.jpg?h=b47cd95b&itok=_yM3J0yH)
Mr Birling Context Images
The images in this gallery relate to historical incidents which Mr Birling refers to in his speeches in the opening of An Inspector Calls.
![A miner in distress.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/The_miner_emerges.jpg?h=5f568b80&itok=38h7sTQf)
Propaganda Posters
Have students analyze these examples of Nazi propaganda using the Crop It teaching strategy.
![This mid-1930s poster says, “The NSDAP (Nazi Party) protects the people. Your fellow comrades need your advice and help, so join the local party organization.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1936_NaziRecruitmentPropaganda_FH229451.jpg?h=5e938d19&itok=Wj-dTXcd)
Propaganda Posters (en español)
Have students analyze these examples of Nazi propaganda using the Crop It teaching strategy. This gallery is in Spanish.
![This mid-1930s poster says, “The NSDAP (Nazi Party) protects the people. Your fellow comrades need your advice and help, so join the local party organization.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1936_NaziRecruitmentPropaganda_FH229451.jpg?h=5e938d19&itok=Wj-dTXcd)
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.
![Several Jewish schoolchildren jostle each other. Taken circa 1935-1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/16_Vishniac_boys_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?h=603532df&itok=HHj9toQO)
Territorial Changes of the Ottoman Empire 1817 - 1913
View a series of maps highlighting changes to the Ottoman Empire in green.
![Map of the Ottoman Empire Territory in 1817](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Territorial_changes_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_1817_800x600.jpeg?h=ccb565a9&itok=AN0JbOzo)
The Changing Geography of the Ottoman Empire (1300–1920)
Maps showing the growth and contraction of territory controlled by the Ottoman Empire from 1300 through 1920.