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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.
Pledging Allegiance
Compare the text of Germany's original military oath with Hitlerās new oath, and consider the implications of the oath's promise of allegiance to a single leader.
Pledging Allegiance (en espaƱol)
Compare the text of Germany's original military oath with Hitlerās new oath, and consider the implications of the oath's promise of allegiance to a single leader. This resource is in Spanish.
Pledging Allegiance (En EspaƱol)
In Spanish, compare the text of Germany's original military oath with Hitlerās new oath, and consider the implications of the oath's promise of allegiance to a single leader.
A Nucleus of Ordinary Men (en espaƱol)
In Spanish, consider the role that secrecy and fear play in mob violence with W. E. B. Du Boisā analysis of the Ku Klux Klanās power.
Presidential Reconstruction
Investigate aspects of President Andrew Johnsonās plans for Reconstruction that outlined how to bring former Confederate citizens and states back into the Union.
Reconstructing Mississippi
Learn about the accomplishments of the first interracial legislature in Mississippi from the account of John Roy Lynch, a freedman who served in the stateās House of Representatives.
Reconstructing Mississippi (en espaƱol)
In Spanish, learn about the accomplishments of the first interracial legislature in Mississippi from the account of John Roy Lynch, a freedman who served in the stateās House of Representatives.
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867
This reading examines measures of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, which enacted the plan that became known as Radical Reconstruction.
A Right to the Land
Freedman Bayley Wyatt advocates for freedpeople's rights to their land at a public meeting.
A Right to the Land (en espaƱol)
In Spanish, Freedman Bayley Wyatt advocates for freedpeople's rights to their land at a public meeting.
"Restoring" Germany's Civil Service
Read a letter exchange between Adolf Hitler and President Paul von Hindenburg regarding a law that suspended Jews from positions of civil service in Nazi Germany.