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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.
Enabling Dictatorship
Read the text of the Enabling Act, the law many historians argue was the legal basis for Hitler’s dictatorship in Nazi Germany.
Hitler's First Radio Address
Read the text of Hitler’s first speech to the German people as chancellor, in which he describes his vision for the future of Germany.
Colonialism and the Jews of North Africa
In this video, Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Professor Aomar Boum establish the important historical context of Colonialism for understanding wartime North Africa.
Viewing Guide for "Colonialism and the Jews of North Africa"
This handout contains questions that guide students' viewing and prompt discussion on the video, "Colonialism and the Jews of North Africa".
Holocaust and Human Behavior: A Facing History & Ourselves Elective Course
Get all of the teacher-facing content for the Facing History & Ourselves high school elective course in Google Doc or PDF format.
“A 'Total Violation of Human Dignity’ Girlhood Interrupted in Auschwitz (1944)”
This is an excerpt from Simone Lagrange's testimony at a war crimes trial in 1987.
Custom and Conscience: Margot Stern Strom reflects on growing up in Memphis, TN in the 1950s
Margot Stern Strom, the founder and President Emerita of Facing History & Ourselves, describes growing up in Jim Crow-era Memphis.
Weimar Republic Images (Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective)
Use these photos and fine art from the Weimar Era to have students complete an image-analysis activity.
Building a Toolbox (Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective)
This handout provides students with instructions for building a toolbox that reflects what they've learned about using the lessons of the past as a tool to guide responses to injustice.
Evidence Logs (Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective)
This handout provides a place where students can centralize and organize evidence specific to the elective course assessment prompt.
Map the Internal World of an Upstander
Students use this handout to gather evidence that helps them understand a chosen civic actor’s thoughts, feelings, and motivations.