Learn how people in the late eighteenth-century used race science, social Darwinism, and eugenics to justify their ideas about membership.
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Race in US History
The Science of Race
Read about the seventeenth- and eighteenth- century scientists who tried to prove that humankind is divided into separate and unequal races.
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Under the Cover of Law
Investigate Nazi Germany’s first eugenic law, the “Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring.”
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Developing Student Voice, Character, and Civic Agency
This middle school curriculum leads students in an examination of identity, membership and belonging, and civic participation through an analysis of historical case studies and literature.
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Everything you need to get started teaching your students about racism, antisemitism and prejudice.