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This unit provides students with an introduction to human rights, minority (both ethnic and religious) rights, civil and political rights, and women's rights.

This curriculum unit offers students the opportunity to consider civil rights issues in the context of the Japanese-American experience during World War II. Lessons focus on the immigration years, the role of the media, diverse perspectives on the internment years, Japanese Americans and the military during World War II, and legacies of internment.

This unit allows students to gain a broader perspective on child labor and become more familiar with the issues, controversies, and debates that surround it.

This unit introduces students to a variety of economic basics and helps them to understand the context of the emerging economies in East Asia, their economic troubles in 1997–98, and the International Monetary Fund.

Through this unit, students are encouraged to examine the use of the atomic bomb on Japan in its historical context. Small-group and whole-class activities allow students to learn and appreciate the multiple perspectives people have on the atomic bombing.

Small-group activities encourage students to become historians as they evaluate letters from Hernando Cortés, poetry from the Aztecs, and pictures of the Danza de la Conquista. They come away from this unit with a richer knowledge of the Aztec/Spanish encounters; an understanding of concepts such as bias, perspective, interpretation, and balance; and an appreciation for the complexity of writing history.