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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.
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The Bear That Wasn't
Explore identity, conformity, and authority with this modern fable about a bear forced to navigate society's perception of who he is.
The Bear That Wasn't (en español)
Explore identity, conformity, and authority with this modern fable about a bear forced to navigate society's perception of who he is. This resource is in Spanish.
The Age of Rights?
The anti-colonial movement was growing stronger around the world, and with the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the newly formed United Nations, many turned their attention to the rights of colonized people globally.
L'époque des droits?
Le mouvement anticolonial prenait de l'ampleur dans le monde, et avec la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme en 1948 par les Nations unies nouvellement constituées, plusieurs personnes ont tourné leur attention sur les droits des peuples colonisés à l'échelle mondiale.
Gathering Anger
Responding with growing anger and assertiveness, indigenous activists rejected the idea of equal treatment before the law as simplistic at best. They argued that it was used to mask decades of accumulated material and political privileges for European Canadians acquired at the expense of Indigenous Peoples.
Le rassemblement de la colère
Répondant avec une colère et une assurance croissantes, les activistes autochtones ont rejeté l'idée d'un traitement égal devant la loi, la considérant au mieux comme simpliste. Ils ont affirmé qu'elle était utilisée pour cacher des décennies de privilèges matériels et politiques pour les Canadiens européens aux dépens des Peuples Autochtones.
"Shall We Call Home Our Troops?" (1875)
Wood engraving by Thomas Nast from Harper's Weekly depicting the reaction of the radical South toward African Americans after the North does not follow up their promises.
Apologies
Learn about the public apologies issued by several churches in the years following critical reports and testimony from residential school survivors.
South Carolina Legislature 1868
Photomontage of members of the first South Carolina legislature following the Civil War, mounted on card with each member identified.
Nina Katz
Learn about Nina Katz, a Holocaust survivor instrumental in establishing the Facing History & Ourselves office in Memphis, TN.
"The Birth of a Nation" Summarizes Reconstruction
Title cards, or intertitles, from The Birth of a Nation, a 1915 film portraying D.W. Griffith's racist vision of life in the South during the Civil war era.