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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.
Vitka Kempner and Fellow Jewish Partisans
Vitka Kempner (right), a leading figure of the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, with fellow partisans Abba Kovner and Rozka Korczak.
Women and Children at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus, a region of Ukraine, who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau walk toward the gas chambers.
Evian Conference cartoon, 1938
View the Evian Conference cartoon published by the New York Times on Sunday, July 3rd, 1938.
Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg
This image shows the Chief American Prosecutor, Justice Robert Jackson, speaking at Nuremberg Trials
Fritz Mackensen, Der Saeugling (The Baby), 1892
Mackensen’s work represents a more traditional style of art that many Germans were familiar with before World War I. This painting was featured in the 1937 Great German Art Exhibition in Munich, sponsored by the Nazis. See full-sized image for analysis.
Dachau Inmate after Liberation
After American soldiers liberated Dachau in 1945, an inmate of the camp attacks a German soldier.
Degenerate Art Exhibit, 1937
This display from a 1937 "degenerate art" exhibit is entitled "German Peasants—From a Jewish Perspective.”
German Voting Ballot, 1938
Sample voting ballot asking if Austrians support Germany’s annexation
On April 10, 1938, Austrians were asked whether they supported the March 13 Anschluss. 99.75% of voters said that they supported Germany’s annexation of Austria into the Third Reich.