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.
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

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

Students will discuss the importance of Civil Discourse and discuss challenging contemporary issues.

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Bill of Rights Institute

This Teaching Idea uses the story of the Robert E. Lee monument to help students consider the power of symbols and explore the Movement for Black Lives protests through the lens of voice, agency, and solidarity.

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Facing History and Ourselves

The resources in this collection support students to engage with news on themes like global immigration, democracy, and racial justice in the United States while building their capacities for critical thinking, emotional engagement, ethical reflection, and civic agency.

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Facing History and Ourselves

As a highly-structured model for conversation, Deliberations allow teachers to help students cooperatively discuss contested political issues by carefully considering multiple perspectives and searching for consensus. This Deliberation focuses on the health of the United States' democracy.

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Street Law Inc.

Mapping Inequality introduces the viewer to the records of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) on a scale that is unprecedented. Here you can browse more than 150 interactive maps and thousands of "area descriptions." These materials afford an extraordinary view of the contours of wealth and racial inequality in Depression-era American cities and insights into discriminatory policies and practices that so profoundly shaped cities that we feel their legacy to this day.

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New American History

Suffrage and the passage of the 19th Amendment marked an important moment in the progression of women’s participation in our democracy and civic life. The 2019 National Youth Summit looked at woman suffrage as an example of how groups with limited political power have and continue to shape our democracy using strategies and tools, like the vote and public protest, to give voice to issues and galvanize fellow Americans into communal movements for change.

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History

This series of Teaching Ideas is designed to help students think critically about the long and troubling history between law enforcement and Black Americans, while not stereotyping or criminalizing all police officers.

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Facing History and Ourselves

This unit of lessons and tools examines the electoral processes of the American political system and encourages informed civic involvement.

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iCivics, Inc.
