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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.
Stranger at the Gate Viewing Guide
Bring the short documentary film Stranger at the Gate into your classroom with the streaming video and companion guide of discussion questions and activities.
![Stranger at the Gate press image Smartypants.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-04/Stranger-085.jpg?h=f54bfa0f&itok=6HJSEUAP)
ELA Unit Planning Guide
This guide provides the framework and classroom resources to help you design an English Language Arts unit for middle or high school students centered around a book of your choosing.
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Targeting Jews
Learn about the Nazis' boycott of Jewish-owned businesses, including a firsthand account from a German Jew.
![SA members in 1933 stand in front of a barricaded Jewish shop, holding signs in both German and English urging the boycott of Jewish businesses.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_BoycottOfJewishBusinesses_FH229436.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=rrEd3_YP)
Targeting Jews (UK)
Learn about the Nazis' boycott of Jewish-owned businesses, including a firsthand account from a German Jew.
![SA members in 1933 stand in front of a barricaded Jewish shop, holding signs in both German and English urging the boycott of Jewish businesses.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_BoycottOfJewishBusinesses_FH229436.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=rrEd3_YP)
Targeting Jews (en español)
Learn about the Nazis' boycott of Jewish-owned businesses, including a firsthand account from a German Jew. This resource is in Spanish.
![SA members in 1933 stand in front of a barricaded Jewish shop, holding signs in both German and English urging the boycott of Jewish businesses.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_BoycottOfJewishBusinesses_FH229436.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=rrEd3_YP)
A Test of Loyalty
Consider how two government employees in Nazi Germany chose to respond to the 1933 Civil Service Law, which suspended employment to Jews and others.
![German military recruits swear allegiance to Adolf Hitler.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_SwearingAllegianceToHitler_FH229433.jpg?h=827069f2&itok=8JL6O5JQ)
A Wave of Discrimination
Review a list of anti-Jewish laws, policies, and decrees made in Nazi Germany in 1933.
![Crackdown on Communists and Social Democrats: arrested in the SA-barracks on Friedrichstrasse, April, 1933](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_CrackdownOnCommunistsSocialDemocrats_%20FH223594.jpg?h=b4b77820&itok=qioklvs6)
A Wave of Discrimination (en español)
Review a list of anti-Jewish laws, policies, and decrees made in Nazi Germany in 1933. This resource is in Spanish.
![Crackdown on Communists and Social Democrats: arrested in the SA-barracks on Friedrichstrasse, April, 1933](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_CrackdownOnCommunistsSocialDemocrats_%20FH223594.jpg?h=b4b77820&itok=qioklvs6)
Where They Burn Books...
Consider the significance of the public burning of books in Nazi Germany in 1933.
![Students contribute anti-German books to be destroyed at a Berlin book-burning on May 10, 1933. About 40,000 people attended the event.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch05_Image04_Medium_res.jpg?h=743bf4af&itok=z-Z7ctxe)
Working Toward the Führer
Consider how the Nazis leveraged Hitler’s public image in their pursuit to transform German society according to Nazi ideology.
![Students contribute anti-German books to be destroyed at a Berlin book-burning on May 10, 1933. About 40,000 people attended the event.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch05_Image04_Medium_res.jpg?h=743bf4af&itok=z-Z7ctxe)
Working Toward the Führer (en español)
Consider how the Nazis leveraged Hitler’s public image in their pursuit to transform German society according to Nazi ideology. This resource is in Spanish.
![Students contribute anti-German books to be destroyed at a Berlin book-burning on May 10, 1933. About 40,000 people attended the event.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch05_Image04_Medium_res.jpg?h=743bf4af&itok=z-Z7ctxe)