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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.
“Concentration Constellation” by Lawson Fusao Inada (en español)
In this poem, Lawson Fusao Inada, a survivor of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, describes the prison camps across the United States. This resource is in Spanish.
Legal Challenges to Japanese American Incarceration
Learn about Gordon Hirabayashi and Fred Korematsu's Supreme Court cases challenging the legality of Japanese American incarceration.
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Japanese American Military Service and Protest During WWII
Learn about the complex history of Japanese American military service during World War II.
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Japanese American Incarceration Camp Protests
Read descriptions of protests that occurred inside Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II.
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Inside the Japanese American Campaign for Reparations
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In this interview with NPR, a former incarceree recounts the redress campaign’s challenges, the realities of incarceration camps, and implications for other reparations movements.
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How History Led Japanese Americans to Stand with Immigrants
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This PBS news article recounts how history inspired Japanese Americans in Tacoma, Washington, to support immigrants’ rights in 2020.
Boston Community Profiles (en español)
This handout includes short overviews of the three fastest-growing racial and ethnic groups in Boston in the 1960s, as well as the city’s shrinking white population during that time. This resource is in Spanish.
A Latina Mother Responds to Conditions at School
Historian Tatiana Cruz describes what a Latina mother saw when she visited her daughter’s school in Boston in the 1970s.
A Latina Mother Responds to Conditions at School (en español)
Historian Tatiana Cruz describes what a Latina mother saw when she visited her daughter’s school in Boston in the 1970s. This resource is in Spanish.
How Social Media Users Help and Harm
A CNN article explores the strengths and weaknesses of, and interplay between, professional news and amateur social media.
Officer Kills Ferguson Teen
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch article summarizes what was known in the first 24 hours after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Mo.