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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.
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.
Hannah Höch, The Kitchen Knife, 1919
Hannah Höch's work, including The Kitchen Knife, consists primarily of collages often made from photographs.
‘63 Boycott: Today is Freedom Day
During the 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott, 225,000 students protested racial segregation and unequal conditions in Chicago's schools. This video features footage of the boycott and student participants' eyewitness accounts.
International Youth Year: Rally
The International Youth Year Rally (1985) was organized by the United Nations with the goal of raising awareness on issues concerning the abuse and mistreatment of youth worldwide.
Marion Pritchard
Marion Pritchard holds Erika Polak, one of the children she saved from the Nazis. Working with the Dutch resistance, Pritchard helped to save more than 150 children during World War II.
Mazisi Kunene
Mazisi Kunene (1930-2006), a South African poet, educator and activist, was an active supporter and organizer of the anti-apartheid movement in Europe and Africa. He later became South Africa’s poet laureate.
Mourners after Antisemitic Rampage in Poland
Mourners in Kielce, Poland, gather around coffins after townspeople killed 42 Jews in an antisemitic rampage in 1946.
Mourners Carry UDF Banner During Mass Funeral
A group of mourners carry a United Democratic Front Banner during a mass funeral for 18 black South Africans killed during the unrest in Duncan Village near East London, South Africa.
Religion and Identity
Four teenagers from different religious traditions reflect on their experiences of religious belief and belonging.
Photograph of a Girl by Roman Vishniac
Sara, sitting in bed in a basement dwelling, with stenciled flowers above her head, Warsaw, ca. 1935–1938.