Choices Program

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Digital and Print Curriculum: Unique units bridge history and current issues.

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Teaching with the News: Free lessons connect headlines to the classroom.

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Professional Development: Useful, hands-on learning for educators.

The Vietnam War: Origins, History, and Legacies

This unit tells the “long history” of the destructive, deadly, and divisive U.S. war in Vietnam. Students examine the war’s long-term origins, investigate its complex history, and explore its lasting legacies.

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The Civil War

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New Edition

Russia and the United States: Perspectives from History—Choices for Today

The sixth edition of this unit includes added content to account for events in Ukraine and more details about NATO. It includes two new lessons as well as new primary sources, images, study guides, and graphic organizers.

Free Lesson Plan

NATO and the War in Ukraine

In this free lesson, students review the history and role of the NATO alliance; analyze primary source documents about NATO expansion and the war in Ukraine; explore multiple perspectives on NATO expansion; and consider NATO’s role in current
events in Ukraine.

Updated Unit

Confronting Genocide: Never Again?

In the eighth edition of this engaging curriculum unit, students explore the evolution of the international community's response to genocide and examine how the U.S. has responded to multiple cases of genocide. Includes new content on the Uighers in China and the OvaHerero-Nama Genocide in Namibia.

Featured Unit

Climate Change and Questions of Justice

Students examine the causes and effects of global warming and delve into questions of who is most responsible for and vulnerable to the changing climate. Students also grapple with how to respond to climate change in ways that are both effective and fair.

Web-based Curriculum

Digital Editions

Digital Editions takes the high-quality, up-to-date curriculum units educators expect from the Choices Program to a whole new level. Compatible with all devices, including mobile. Stand-alone, web-based platform but also easy to use with Google Classroom, Canvas, Blackboard, and more. No student logins. Individual and site licenses available.

2023 AASL Award

Best Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning

Choices has been selected by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) as one of the Best Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning in 2023! Check out our Digital Editions curriculum, free online video collection, and free online Teaching with the News lesson plans!

The Choices Program is a self-funded organization affiliated with the Department of History at Brown University. We work to increase access to high-quality curriculum content and strengthen education about history and current events in secondary schools in the United States and beyond. Watch this video to learn more!

What Teachers Are Saying

The quality of the scholarship is extraordinary and my students benefit from accessing current information. The material is really wonderful and the role-playing lessons are really good. I recommend Choices! — Susan, History Teacher, Massachusetts

Digital Editions is very easy to use and the curriculum is great in providing multiple perspectives and fostering discussions. I like the ability to edit and adapt the resources to my students' needs. — Gina, History and Social Studies Teacher, California

[Choices materials] bring together well-curated resources and the lesson plans are well-crafted, so I rarely have to make significant adjustments. When the topics align with my course effectively, it's a great 'deep dive.' — Brooke, History and Current Issues Teacher, Pennsylvania

Choices is an amazing curriculum, better than others out there. It offers teachers resources to teach truthful history. — Johanna, History and Geography Teacher, New York

States have schools using Choices Program materials as well as more than 200 international schools.

Curriculum units for courses in Current Issues, U.S. and World History, Africana Studies, Asian Studies, and Geography.

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Students around the world benefit from the Choices Program’s award-winning curriculum each year.

Professional development webinars and workshops held annually.

Engaging, inquiry-based curriculum for history and current issues courses.

Perspectives from history. Choices for today.