Engaging, inquiry-based curriculum for History and Current Issues courses.

Cubans have very different opinions about their country and its history, particularly about the Cuban Revolution that began in 1959. In the second edition of this unit, students explore Cuba’s history and the Cuban Revolution, and consider the country’s future.

In this lesson, students will work together to explore six different excerpted articles from historians and scholars who, in the days after the Capitol riot, sought to provide historical context for the events of January 6.

In this free lesson, students read or view past presidential inaugural addresses, analyze their messages, and discuss their visions for the country. Students will then view and analyze President Biden’s address, discuss their findings, express their own views, and reflect on the purpose and meaning of presidential inaugural addresses.

This unit examines the causes and effects of global warming and delves 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. The updated edition includes a new focus on youth climate activism, updated content on global climate negotiations and agreements, and more.

This unit provides a wide-ranging overview of racial slavery in the Americas and the opportunity for students to consider how the past shapes the present. FREE in Digital Editions through September 30, 2021.

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In this FREE unit, students examine U.S.-Japanese relations before World War II, experiences of incarcerated Japanese Americans, and ways the Japanese American community and others have remembered incarceration.

In this unit, students explore the evolution of the international community's response to genocide and examine how the United States has responded to six cases of genocide, including the Holocaust.

In this FREE lesson, students review a timeline of black activism, identify patterns and themes, consider accomplishments of civil rights activists and the enduring obstacles to racial equality, and evaluate platforms for activism and the role of social media in protests.

In this unit, students explore the history of Syria from the Ottoman Empire to French colonial rule, Syrian independence, and the rise of the Assad regimes as historical background to understand the recent conflict.

This is a major, must-have overhaul and replacement for this popular unit. Students explore the events leading up to Lenin and the Bolsheviks' assumption of power; the political and economic conditions that led to the fall of the Tsar; and the competing political ideologies in revolutionary-era Russia.

Students trace the history of the Black freedom struggle from Reconstruction through the 1960s with a focus on the grass-roots movement to achieve civil rights for African Americans.