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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.
Before Apartheid
Understand the history of people living and settling in the South African region and explore how racial and ethnic identities created tension in the years leading to apartheid.
Early Apartheid: 1948-1970
Learn about the early development of apartheid as the white South African government formed a legal system of racial hierarchy and non-white South Africans resisted these laws.
Growing Resistance Meets Growing Repression
Investigate the resurgent wave of international and domestic anti-apartheid activism that led to increased violence before both sides compromised over a legal conclusion to apartheid.
Transition to Democracy
Examine the continuing struggle for South Africa as it creates a representative democracy, attempts to heal from the legacy of apartheid, and searches for a new, inclusive identity.
From Unrest to Peace and Prosperity
Consider how the return of peace and prosperity in Germany in 1924 affected the popularity of extremist groups like the Nazis.
Violence in the Streets
Read about the atmosphere of violence in Weimar Germany cultivated by the paramilitary forces of the Nazis, Communists, and other political groups.
Visual Essay: Free Expression in the Weimar Republic
Explore Weimar-era fine art, film, and ballet with this collection of images. Analyze the experimental styles and social commentary of German art in the 1920s.
Voices in the Dark
Read a German Jew’s firsthand account of an antisemitic incident on a train in Weimar Germany.
Introduction: Before Apartheid
Understand the origins of racial and ethnic division and discrimination between native South African tribes, the first European settlers, and later European colonizers in the South African region.
Sanctions Against Representatives Pearson, Jones, and Zephyr
This reading contains information about the state representatives in Tennessee and Montana who were excluded from their legislatures.
Introduction: Early Apartheid: 1948-1970
Study the National Party’s implementation of strict racial laws, the forms of defiance by black South Africans and other minority groups, and the government’s harsh reaction to this defiance.