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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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Genocide
What Is Genocide?
This explainer helps students understand the meaning, gravity, and history of the concept and crime of genocide.
Timeline of Major Events in China, 1839–1919
Introduce students to nineteenth-century Chinese history and the country's response to Western imperialism.
The Outbreak of World War II in East Asia Documents
Students investigate these primary and secondary sources in order to understand the underlying causes of the outbreak of World War II in Asia.
Reporter: Psychic Numbing
Nicholas Kristof describes psychic numbing: caring less as a number of victims increases.
Letter to California Students
Share this letter with students as a way to introduce them to the Teaching the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide unit.
Letter to California Parents and Guardians
Share this letter with parents and guardians to provide them with an overview of the Teaching the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide unit.
Stolen Lives: The Charge of Genocide and the Residential Schools
Various scholars, indigenous and non-indigenous, discuss the charge of genocide regarding the Residential School system in Canada and its effects. This video is a part of the resource Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and The Indian Residential Schools.
Why Study History?
Get students' initial opinions about the importance and impact of history with this warm up activity.
Why Study History? (en español)
Get students' initial opinions about the importance and impact of history with this warm up activity. This resource is in Spanish.
Mobile Killing Units
Dr. Kutorgene write about what had happened in Kovno as the Nazis prepared to murder the Jews in the ghetto there.
We May Not Have Another Chance
This handout can be used to distribute a reading from the perspective of Holocaust survivor Sonia Weitz to your students.