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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.
Fort Resolution Indian Residential School
In the crowded and understaffed residential schools, the physical and domestic chores performed by students were critical to keeping the schools afloat. In this photo children are seen cutting logs at Fort Resolution Indian Residential School.
Pensionnat autochtone de Fort Resolution
Dans les pensionnats autochtones bondés et en pénurie d’effectifs, les corvées physiques et domestiques effectuées par les étudiants étaient essentielles pour maintenir les écoles en vie. Sur cette photographie se trouvent des enfants qui coupent des billes de bois au pensionnat autochtone de Fort Resolution dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest.
Fur Trade
Europeans and Indigenous Peoples of Canada interacted through the fur trade for almost 300 years. This photo is from the 1950s, when the extensiveness of the trade network had much declined from its peak in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
La traite des fourrures
Le commerce des fourrures a permis aux Européens et aux Peuples Autochtones du Canada d’interagir pendant près de 300 ans. Cette photographie date des années 1950, moment où l’étendue du réseau commercial avait beaucoup diminué par rapport à son apogée aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.
A Cabin in Hale County, Alabama During the Great Depression
A cabin where an African American family lived, in Hale County, Alabama during the Great Depression.
A General Store Interior in Moundville, Alabama
This photo of the interior of an Alabama general store was taken in the summer of 1936.
Imperialist Cecil Rhodes
This caricature, “Rhodes Colossus,” depicts British imperialist Cecil Rhodes straddling the continent of Africa after announcing plans for a telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo.
Bud Fields and Family
Sharecropper Bud Fields and his family at their home in Hale County, Alabama, in the mid-1930s.
Capture of Jewish Resistance Fighters
Jewish resistance fighters who fought against the SS and German army during the Warsaw ghetto uprising between April 19 and May 16, 1943, are captured.