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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.
The Gravity of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Dr. Hong Zheng recalls the fate of his uncle’s family in Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when Japanese soldiers enter and search their home. Another family, thousands of compatriots, and British POWs, also cannot escape the violence.
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Roosevelt Williams Recalls Moving for Work in Alabama and Mississippi
Roosevelt Williams describes different jobs he held and how he moved around the segregated South to find work in the 1930s and 1940s.
![A man ploughing with two horses, possibly near Featherston.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/1915_AManPloughingWithTwoHorses_FH2170780.png?h=2a32defd&itok=SJxEuhw1)
Roosevelt Williams Recalls Voting in Alabama
Roosevelt Williams describes voting in segregated Alabama in the 1930s and 1940s.
![Voters at the voting booths, 1945.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/1945_VotersAtTheVotingBooths_FH224203.jpg?h=6355ac16&itok=Y6NFJuGl)
The Scottsboro Affair
Consider the nature of justice with this reading about the Scottsboro Affair in which nine black teenagers were accused of raping two white women in the 1930s.
![The Scottsboro Boys with attorney Samuel Leibowitz, 1932](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/1932_TheScottsboroBoyswithattorneySamuelLeibowitz_FH2173829.jpg?h=74939261&itok=j2h0Ev7x)
The Southern Lady and Belle: The Companion to Southern Literature by Joseph Flora and Lucinda MacKethan
Authors Joseph Flora and Lucinda MacKethan describe the social stereotypes of the "Southern lady" and the younger "Southern belle."
![Cover illustration of Harper's Weekly, September 7, 1861 showing a stereotypical Southern belle](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/1861_CoverIllustrationOfHarpersWeekly_FH2170271.jpeg?h=7d7ebcb9&itok=y3T_lb8s)
The Spirit of Liberty
Judge Learned Hand, a federal judge and legal thinker, reflects on the roles of the law and citizens’ hearts and minds in upholding liberty.
![Portrait photograph of Judge Learned Hand.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/1910_BillingsLearnedHand_FH2170280.jpg?h=7f023bc4&itok=rMERs7hl)
Feathers of Hope
Read excerpts from a plan created by Indigenous youth activists to address the legacy of colonialism and residential schools in their communities.
![Cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/FHAO_stolenLives_HR_graphic.png?h=e2f3be3a&itok=E26V-38t)
Feathers of Hope (Les plumes de l’espoir)
Lisez des extraits d’un plan créé par de jeunes militants autochtones pour aborder le triste héritage du colonialisme et des pensionnats autochtones dans leurs communautés.
![Cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/FHAO_stolenLives_HR_graphic.png?h=e2f3be3a&itok=E26V-38t)
Letter From the Trenches
Read about what Priestley saw in the new year as a soldier in the First World War in his letter from the trenches in 1916.
![This photograph of the young Priestley, with his ‘innocent pudding face’ as he called it, is a poignant image when seen in the context of the horrors of trench warfare he experienced in the years after it was taken.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/photograph-of-j-b-Priestley_21cropped.jpeg?h=3a8cbacf&itok=8ywrDtcw)
The Parts, People, and Interactions of the Patriarchal System in Edwardian England
Read about some of the parts, people, and interactions of the patriarchal social system in Edwardian England, which saw women were treated as second-class citizens.
![“Westbury Leigh”, Edwardian postcard postmarked 1910](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Westbury_Leigh%2C_Edwardian_postcard.jpeg?h=0ea0bc21&itok=TDr_ad8U)
Perspectives on the Gig Economy
Learn about different people's experiences of and perspectives on the gig economy in the UK.
![Food delivery worker riding a bicycle](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/kai-pilger-tL92LY152Sk-unsplash.jpg?h=bab50b3c&itok=l_haRipn)