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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.
Imperialist Cecil Rhodes
This caricature, “Rhodes Colossus,” depicts British imperialist Cecil Rhodes straddling the continent of Africa after announcing plans for a telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo.
Challenging Racist Assumptions
This reading contains an excerpt of Horace Mann Bond's response to the racist ideas put forward in Carl Brigham’s A Study of American Intelligence.
Identity and Belonging (UK)
Author Sarfraz Manzoor writes about the experiences that shaped his understanding of what it means to be British and what it means to belong.
Indigenous Canadian Woman on a Reserve
A portrait of an indigenous Canadian woman on a reserve, 1930.
Femme autochtone canadienne dans une réserve
Sur cette photographie se trouve une femme autochtone canadienne dans une réserve, 1930.
Finding One's Voice
Julius Lester describes finding his identity in an unexpected place as an African American teenager living in the segregated South.
Finding One's Voice (en español)
In Spanish, Julius Lester describes finding his identity in an unexpected place as an African American teenager living in the segregated South.
Quote from Rosemary Bray (en español)
Author Rosemary Bray reflects on the tensions in the founding documents. This resource is in Spanish.
Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II
The last emperors of Germany and Russia posing together in 1905.
Kurt Dreyer's Son
Kurt Dreyer’s son wears the boots his father, a German soldier, sent him from Poland during World War II. Meine stiefel means “my boots.”