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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.
Asian Americans: Breaking Through
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In episode five, Asian American and Pacific Islanders have become the fastest growing population in the US at the turn of the millennium, and the country tackles urgent debates over immigration, race, and economic disparity.
Jewish Life in Pre-War North Africa
In this clip, Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Professor Aomar Boum discuss Jewish life in North Africa, highlighting the diversity of Jewish communities across Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia.
Custom and Conscience: Margot Stern Strom reflects on growing up in Memphis, TN in the 1950s
Margot Stern Strom, the founder and President Emerita of Facing History & Ourselves, describes growing up in Jim Crow-era Memphis.
Doc Miller - Creating a Reflective Classroom Community
Facing History's Doc Miller discusses reflective classrooms.
Creating "We and They": Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses how and why humans create a “we and they” distinction.
Day of Learning 2013 - Binna Kandola: Diffusing Bias
Binna Kandola delivers a talk as part of the Day of Learning “Reimagining Self and Other.”
China and Japan: Neighbors, Friends, Enemies
Scholar Joshua A. Fogel discusses the history of interactions between Japan and China.
Color Adjustment
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This film traces many years of turbulent race relations by looking at television programs.
The Great Migration and the Power of a Single Decision
Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson tells the story of the Great Migration, the outpouring of six million African Americans from the Jim Crow South to cities in the North and West between World War I and the 1970s.