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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.
Samuel Bak’s Illuminations Audio Tour
This audio tour features commentary by Holocaust scholar Lawrence Langer on the 28 paintings in Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak’s Illuminations collection.
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Holocaust and Human Behavior
This resource provides writing prompts and strategies that align Holocaust and Human Behavior with the expectations of the Common Core State Standards.
Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior
This 23-lesson unit on the Holocaust and World War II asks students to reflect on the essential question, What does learning about the choices people made during the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Nazi Party, and the Holocaust teach us about the power and impact of our choices today?
Sacred Texts, Modern Questions
Designed for educators in Jewish settings, this resource connects biblical, rabbinic, and contemporary Jewish sources to moral questions of today.
Teaching Night
This guide interweaves a literary analysis of Elie Wiesel’s powerful and poignant memoir with an exploration of the relevant historical context surrounding his experience during the Holocaust.
Holocaust and Human Behavior
Get a print or PDF version of our core resource on the Holocaust, which examines the challenging history of the Holocaust while prompting reflection on our world today.
I Promised I Would Tell
Survivor Sonia Schreiber Weitz bears witness to the Holocaust through poetry and testimony in this powerful memoir.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time Bryan Stevenson.
Being Heumann
In this unrepentant memoir of one of the most influential disability rights activists, Judith Heumann, tells her story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.
Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution
In this young readers’ edition of her acclaimed memoir, Being Heumann, Judy Heumann shares her journey of battling for equal access in an unequal world.
Somewhere There is Still a Sun
Resilience shines throughout a boy's firsthand, present-tense account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during the Holocaust.