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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.
Dismantled German Aircraft after WWI
German military aircraft being dismantled and scrapped after World War I, according to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
Durban Gay Pride Parade, 2017
On October 10, 1990, the inaugural Gay Pride Festival was held in Johannesburg. Since its inception the festival, highlighting the rights of gays and lesbians, grows in size and magnitude.
Durban Strikes
The Durban strikes of 1973, and the subsequent formation of new trade unions, were instrumental in causing the first seams of apartheid to break apart.
Edelweiss Pirates
A 1938 photo of a group of Edelweiss Pirates, an unofficial youth group that emerged in response to the strict regimentation of the Hitler Youth.
FDNY Battalion 9 Memorial
This memorial commemorates the New York City firefighters of Battalion 9 who lost their lives on September 11.
Flowers and Butterfly by Margit Koretzova
Margit Koretzova painted this while imprisoned at the Terezín ghetto-camp.
Frances Baard
Frances Baard (1909–1997) worked as a domestic servant and then a teacher before turning to activism as a result of her experience of oppression and exploitation in South Africa.
Francis William (F.W.) Reitz, ca. 1895
Francis William Reitz served as President of the Orange Free State from 1889 to 1895. Prior to that, he was the state’s first Supreme Court Chief Justice, serving from 1876 to 1889.
French Countryside after World War II
Two brothers look down at their devastated town in the French countryside, Agneaux, as an American military Jeep drives by. The brothers’ father was executed by the Germans in 1944.
German Troops in Paris
German troops parade past the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after they occupied the city in June 1940.
Girl Walking to School, Mthatha
A child walks to school through the barren village of Qunu, South Africa, located just outside of the town of Mthatha.