Facing History's resources will help you meet the following California History–Social Science Framework standards:
11.1 Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.
- Core Case Study: Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement (chapters 2–4)
Focuses on how people used eugenics to justify their prejudices and advocate for programs aimed at solving problems by ridding society of “inferior racial traits.”
11.2 Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
- Core Case Study: Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement (chapters 4–6)
Focuses on how people used eugenics to justify their prejudices and advocate for programs aimed at solving problems by ridding society of “inferior racial traits.”
11.3 Students analyze the role religion played in the founding of America, its lasting moral, social, and political impacts, and issues regarding religious liberty.
- Resource Collection: Give Bigotry No Sanction
Focuses on thoughtful conversations about matters of religious freedom in our increasingly diverse society.
11.7 Students analyze America’s participation in World War II.
- Unit: Americans and the Holocaust: The Refugee Crisis
Explores the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism and the humanitarian refugee crisis it provoked during the 1930s and 1940s.
- Study Guide: Teaching Farewell to Manzanar
Supports the teaching of Jeanne Wakatsuki’s memoir about the forced relocation of Japanese Americans.
11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post–World War II America.
- Video: Human Rights, Civil Rights, and the Cold War
Dr. Carol Anderson discusses human rights discussions during World War II and links between the Cold War, the creation of the UDHR, and politics of race in the US.
- Video: The Lavender Scare: Gay and Lesbian Life in post-WWII America
Examines the attempts to purge the US military and federal government of gay and lesbian employees during the Cold War and decades later.
- Video: Race: The Power of an Illusion (episode 3)
Focuses on individual behaviors and attitudes and how our institutions shape and create race, giving different groups vastly unequal life chances.
- Study Guide: Twilight: Los Angeles (and streaming film)
Investigates the trial of the Los Angeles police officers indicted for the beating of Rodney King using the documentary film Twilight.
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.
- Teaching Idea: Voting Rights in the United States
Focuses on the expansion and constriction of voting rights throughout US history.
- Unit: Eyes on The Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement 1954–1985
Explores important lessons about the power of ordinary citizens to shape democracy. Includes 14-part series, study guide, and lessons.
- Lesson: Three Visions for Achieving Equal Rights
Examines the strategies of three key civil rights leaders, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael.
- Core Case Study: Civil Rights Historical Investigations
Traces the development of the US civil rights movement from the 1950s to the 1970s through three of the movement's major events.
- Lessons: Latinx Rights in 1960s California
Explores two pivotal moments in the Latinx rights movement in California: the East LA school walkouts and the first year of the Delano grape strike.
11.11 Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society.
- Unit: Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age
Lessons feature video interviews with journalists and scholars and analysis of news coverage and social media.
- Explainer: White Nationalism
Examines key characteristics of white nationalist ideology and clarifies related key-terms, such as “alt-right” and white power.”
- Lesson: 10 Questions for the Present: Parkland Student Activism
Identifies strategies and tools that Parkland students used to influence Americans to take action to reduce gun violence.
- Lesson Collection: Standing Up to Hatred and Intolerance
Engages students as civic actors, thinkers, and problem solvers addressing global challenges of membership and belonging that include contemporary antisemitism, racism, and xenophobia.
- Study Guide: Twilight: Los Angeles (and streaming film)
Investigates the trial of the Los Angeles police officers indicted for the beating of Rodney King using the documentary film Twilight.
- Study Guide: Teaching Enrique’s Journey
Explores activities and discussion questions for leading your students through a six-week reading of Enrique's Journey that explores themes of identity, belonging, and choices.
