Resource Library
Find compelling classroom resources, learn new teaching methods, meet standards, and make a difference in the lives of your students.
We are grateful to The Hammer Family Foundation for supporting the development of our on-demand learning and teaching resources.
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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.
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Holocaust and Human Behavior
This resource provides writing prompts and strategies that align Holocaust and Human Behavior with the expectations of the Common Core State Standards.
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Community Matters: A Facing History & Ourselves Approach to Advisory
Our advisory curriculum contains a year’s worth of activities, student handouts, and best practices to help you build student-centered spaces where honest questioning, discussion, and social and academic growth can occur.
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A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism
This book traces antisemitism's evolution over the centuries and examines how the ancient hatred continues to shape attitudes and beliefs in the world today.
![A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/A_Convenient_Hatred_book_cover.jpg?h=7690544b&itok=OVdTDxAZ)
Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians
This resource examines the choices that individuals, groups, and nations made before, during, and after the Armenian Genocide.
![Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/new_Armenian_cover_front.jpg?h=fa720663&itok=25mTeLOp)
Flag of Faces
The “Flag of Faces” exhibit at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum features a mosaic of individual portraits.
![The “Flag of Faces” exhibit at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum features a mosaic of individual portraits.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Flag_of_Faces_Medium_res.jpg?h=7fb2964e&itok=NLw_pw22)
Flag of Faces
In Spanish, the “Flag of Faces” exhibit at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum features a mosaic of individual portraits.
![The “Flag of Faces” exhibit at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum features a mosaic of individual portraits.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Flag_of_Faces_Medium_res.jpg?h=7fb2964e&itok=NLw_pw22)
Partisan Sonia Orbuch after World War II
Sonia Orbuch, a Jewish partisan in Poland during the Holocaust, and her husband, Isaak Orbuch, on their wedding day in 1945.
![Sonia Orbuch, a Jewish partisan in Poland during the Holocaust, and her husband on their wedding day in 1945.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_PartisanSoniaOrbuchafterWorldWarII_FH227675.jpg?h=01b11b5d&itok=fXjQZD3M)
Persecution of Jews During the Plague
This illustration depicts brutal anti-Judaic violence during the Middle Ages.
![Woodcut of a group of men in a pit being set on fire.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch02_Image01_Medium_res.jpg?h=a61f7ba7&itok=xDw1MDcG)
Plea for Help for Europe's Jews
Cartoon used to sway public opinion to help Jews during the holocaust
![In the Chicago Daily News, November 23, 1938, the cartoonist Cecil Jensen pleaded for world leaders to help Europe’s Jews.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Image_Ch07_07_Medium_res.jpg?h=f31e8512&itok=wXnPDOvH)
"Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State" (1874)
How do racial stereotypes in the media create and reinforce “in” groups and “out” groups in a society?
![Cartoon of members of the South Caroline Legislature in argument in the House, with Columbia rebuking them.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1874_ColoredRuleinaReconstructed%28%3F%29State%281874%29_FH140919_0.jpg?itok=FEBN9jCc)
"He Wants a Change Too" (1876)
Propaganda about racial stereotypes used in the Reconstruction Era
How do racial stereotypes in the media create and reinforce “in” groups and “out” groups in a society?
![Print shows an African American man standing with a rifle, while in the background other African Americans lay dead and buildings burned. Quotes in the block on left call for meeting force with force.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1876_HeWantsaChangeToo_FH2125840.jpg?h=ddcac193&itok=TG4pdX3A)