The curated resources linked below are an initial sample of the resources coming from a collaborative and rigorous review process with the EAD Content Curation Task Force.
This learning resource looks at the impact of Japanese-American internment camps following the Pearl Harbor attacks. Students will engage with accounts from families impacted by these injustices and how past xenophobic actions manifest today with the rise of anti-Asian hate across the globe. Students will look at the location of these camps and the legacy these places still hold today.
New American History

This unit invites students to consider the student activism of the Civil Rights Movement and how its lessons apply today.
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The Rhode Island Historical Society
In this lesson, students consider the conflict over public memory of the Civil War in the United States as they investigate the 2015 controversy over the Confederate flag in South Carolina and then draw connections to the 2017 violence in Charlottesville.

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Facing History and Ourselves

This lesson invites students to explore how public monuments and memorials serve as a selective lens on the past that powerfully shapes our understanding of the present. In the lesson's final activity, students become public historians as they design their own memorial to represent a historical idea, event, or person they deem worthy of commemoration.

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Facing History and Ourselves

Some issues are too fundamental for a party to withstand, and the consequences can last for a generation. This Learning Resource is a collaboration between New American History and Retro Report, producers of Upheaval at the 1860 Democratic Convention: What Happened When a Party Split.

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New American History

Do Americans have shared ideals? What do they look like? Students investigate this question by closely examining words that express American ideals, selecting images from a provided deck that best illustrate their interpretation of the word, and them comparing their choices to others in their group.

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History

What does it mean to be a good citizen? Students investigate this question by looking at the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance, which foreign-born people must take to become naturalized American citizens, and thinking deeply about what are or should be crucial requirements of citizenship. This lesson guides students to closely examine information, to ask probing questions, and to take part in complex discussions with classmates.

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History

What would you do to support what you believe in? Through an interactive and movement-based activity, students investigate this question and examine how in many instances there are no black-or-white answers.

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History

What does the right to vote mean to you? Through an interactive and movement-based activity, students investigate this question and examine how in many instances there are no black or white answers.

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Children often lack knowledge and skills necessary to interact with each other, especially when confronted with differences in mobility, hearing, sight, developmental skills or verbal skills.

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Learning for Justice

Maps, truth, and belief have a complicated relationship with one another. Every map is a representation of reality, and every representation, no matter how accurate and honest, involves simplification, symbolization, and selective attention.

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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center

The American ability to inspire--which we call exceptionalism--is not automatic. It takes continued efforts to be realized in a changing world. In this series, scholars at the Hoover Institution--professors, thinkers, and practitioners of global renown in their respective fields--offer a series of accessible policy ideas for civic, economic, and security architecture that would shore up the long-term foundations of American strengths.

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Hoover Institution
