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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.
K-W-L Chart Template
This printable K-W-L chart template is a graphic organizer that helps students organize information before, during, and after a unit or a lesson.
What Was Behind The Bristol Bus Boycott? Viewing Guide
Give students a place to take notes as they watch a video on the Bristol Bus Boycott.
Analysing the Levers of Power: The Bristol Bus Boycott
Help students analyze the strategies the leaders of the Bristol Bus Boycott used to enact change.
Part Two: Defining Freedom
Scholars discuss the evolution of the definition of freedom for emancipated slaves after the Civil War.
How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Zora Neale Hurston describes her sense of identity and experience being a black woman in this 1928 essay.
Student Journal: Choices in Little Rock
This digital journal, available in Google Slides, gives students a place to record their responses to the unit's journal prompts.
Student Journal: Choices in Little Rock (Spanish)
This digital journal, available in Google Slides, gives students a place to record their responses to the unit's journal prompts.
Pardon/Franchise Engravings by Thomas Nast
Wood engravings by Thomas Nast depict the tension between the demands of healing and justice during the Reconstruction era.
"Shall We Call Home Our Troops?" (1875)
Wood engraving by Thomas Nast from Harper's Weekly depicting the reaction of the radical South toward African Americans after the North does not follow up their promises.
South Carolina Legislature 1868
Photomontage of members of the first South Carolina legislature following the Civil War, mounted on card with each member identified.
"The Birth of a Nation" Summarizes Reconstruction
Title cards, or intertitles, from The Birth of a Nation, a 1915 film portraying D.W. Griffith's racist vision of life in the South during the Civil war era.