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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.
Improving Education in South Carolina (en espaƱol)
In Spanish, Samuel J. Lee, elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1868, describes improvements to the state education system made during Reconstruction.
The Influence of "The Birth of a Nation"
The three-hour silent film The Birth of a Nation did āincalculable harmā to Black Americans by creating a justification for prejudice, racism, and discrimination for decades to follow.
Isolating Homosexuals
Find out how Hitler strengthened enforcement of Paragraph 175, a law that made homosexuality a crime in Germany.
Isolating Homosexuals (UK)
Find out how Hitler strengthened enforcement of Paragraph 175, a law that made homosexuality a crime in Germany.
Isolating Homosexuals (en espaƱol)
Find out how Hitler strengthened enforcement of Paragraph 175, a law that made homosexuality a crime in Germany. This resource is in Spanish.
Speech by President Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address
This is the full text of President Lincoln's second inaugural address, which took place March 4, 1865.
Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens)
Triumph of the Will is a Nazi propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl.
Turned Away on the M.S. St. Louis
Holocaust survivor Sol Messinger describes his experiences attempting to emigrate from Germany to Cuba in 1939 aboard the ship the M.S. St. Louis.
Tuvia Bielski Saving Jewish Lives
Former Jewish partisan Aron Bell describes the Bielski group's commitment to saving the lives of Jews.
War and Peace (1942-1954)
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Part three of Latino Americans, this episode covers World War II and the following years, as Latino Americans serve their new country by the hundreds of thousands but still face discrimination and a fight for civil rights back in the United States.
War of Annihilation: Targeting the Jews of Europe
Scholars Peter Hayes, Deborah Dwork, Wendy Lower, Joshua Rubenstein, Michael Berenbaum, and Jonathan Petropoulos describe the steps that Nazi Germany took in deciding to murder the Jews of Europe.