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Aug 2025
11:
“Let Merchants and Caravans Come and Go”: Mongol Promotion of Trade
Aug 2025
11:
“At Variance with the Europeans”: East Africa, 1400 - c.1750
Aug 2025
4:
“Gujarati Clothes are Held in Great Value”: The Demand for Indian Textiles in Southeast Asia, c.1400
Aug 2025
2:
“Under God’s Guidance to the Lands of the Swahili Coast”: East Africa Before 1500
Jul 2025
28:
“All that is Needed to Refresh the Traveler”: Building Caravanserais in Anatolia
Jul 2025
27:
More than Silk on the Silk Roads: Sogdians and Cultural Exchange Across Eurasia
Jul 2025
26:
“A Mixed Population of Muslims and Zanj”: Teaching East Africa in World History, c.1000 to Present
Jun 2025
13:
“Going Through the Lands of the Franks without Impediment”: Making and Maintaining Peace in the Levant
Jun 2025
9:
“Piles of Corpses Were Found Everywhere”: The Motives and Immediate Consequences of the First Crusade
Jun 2025
9:
“The Totally Planless Construction”: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Urbanization
Jun 2025
5:
“Come Christians and Jews”: The Eleventh-Century Eastern Mediterranean and Europe
Jun 2025
2:
Industrialization, Women, and Social Class
May 2025
30:
“The Meeting Place of Muslim and Christian Merchants”: Teaching the Crusades in World History
May 2025
26:
“Manufacture Created the Middle Class”: Industrialization and the Class System
May 2025
19:
“Foreigners Serve as Our Teachers”: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Qing Reforms
May 2025
12:
“The New Institutions”: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Reforms
May 2025
5:
Teaching Karl Marx in World History
Apr 2025
28:
“Legislate Promptly and Effectively in the Interests of the Unemployed”: Teaching the Development of the British Labour Party
Apr 2025
21:
“Wrought with Labour and Travail”: Building London’s Sewage System
Apr 2025
14:
“Evidences of Comfort and Comparative Civilization”: Teaching Industrialization and Improved Living Standards
Apr 2025
11:
“The Voice of National Self-Determination Has Swept the World”: Teaching the East Asian Uprisings of 1919
Apr 2025
7:
“To Start a Bank in China”: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Transnational Businesses
Apr 2025
6:
“To Marry Egypt to Liberty and Independence”: Teaching the Egyptian Revolution of 1919
Mar 2025
31:
Monthly Digest: March 2025
Mar 2025
31:
Teaching the Spread of Nineteenth Century “Free Trade” with Cartoons
Mar 2025
30:
“Rid Ourselves of the Vampire”: The Irish Fight for Independence and Its Global Impact
Mar 2025
27:
“Our Postcards of Pain”: Teaching the Anticolonial Protests of 1919
Mar 2025
24:
“Foreign Customs are Now Generally Understood Throughout Japan”: Foreign Influence on Japanese Reform in the Nineteenth Century
Mar 2025
19:
“Successfully Compete with the British”: Contemporary Accounts of Muhammad Ali’s Industrial Experiment
Mar 2025
10:
Steamships and the Hajj
Mar 2025
3:
“Steel is the Mother of Industry”: Teaching the Second Industrial Revolution in Japan
Feb 2025
24:
“An Explosion Took Place”: Teaching the Consequences of Coal Mining
Feb 2025
10:
“The Lesson to be Drawn for Japan”: The Origins of Japanese Industrialization
Feb 2025
6:
“We the Women Will Fight”: Africa in the Forty Years’ War
Feb 2025
3:
“The Parsis Built all these Ships without any Assistance from the English”: Indian Shipbuilding in the 1800s
Feb 2025
1:
“A Turning Point in My Life”: East Asia in the Forty Years’ War
Jan 2025
27:
“Great Number of Hands Congregated Together”: Teaching the Origins of the Factory System
Jan 2025
20:
“Despierta, borinqueño”: Teaching Early Puerto Rican Nationalism
Jan 2025
17:
“Such a State is Bound to Disappear”: The Middle East in the Forty Years’ War
Jan 2025
15:
“Every Continent is Affected”: The Forty Years’ War and Decolonizing How We Teach the World Wars
Jan 2025
13:
“The Example of the United States”: Simon Bolivar’s Mixed Feelings
Jan 2025
10:
“Freedom of Trade in Opium”: Teaching Opium Production and Trade in the Late Nineteenth Century
Dec 2024
23:
Monthly Digest: December 2024
Dec 2024
23:
“They All Must Have Opium”: The Diversity of the British Opium Trade
Dec 2024
20:
“Opium Was One of Those Things”: Rethinking How We Teach the Nineteenth-Century Opium Trade
Dec 2024
16:
Teaching the Origins of Nationalism
Dec 2024
16:
“Living Between Worlds”: Global Migration Since 1960
Dec 2024
12:
“Looking For Hope, Betterment”: Global Migration, c.1920 - c.1960
Dec 2024
9:
“Wages of Females Shall Be Equal”: Early Feminism in the Lowell Mills
Dec 2024
6:
“I Left My Land to Come to Demerara”: Global Migration, c.1830 - c.1920
Dec 2024
2:
“Ought to Be Abolished”: Teaching Black Influence on the Abolitionist Movement
Dec 2024
2:
Afroeurasia, Not Afro-Eurasia
Nov 2024
25:
“One May Be a Qadi, a Mullah, or a Sheikh, a Yogi”: Teaching the Origins of Sikhism
Nov 2024
22:
“Longing for their Homes”: The Middle Passage and the Development of Modern Migration, 1700 to 1830
Nov 2024
18:
“Frequently Invaded Iran”: Relations between the Ottoman and Safavid Empires
Nov 2024
16:
“The Voyage Was Full of Dangers”: Teaching Modern Migration, 1700 to Present
Nov 2024
11:
Visualizing Christianity, c.1500 - c.1725
Nov 2024
8:
“As a United Nation”: Teaching Black and Indigenous Participation in the Spanish American Revolutions
Nov 2024
4:
“The Tax Officials are to Pay Installments”: Ottoman Tax Farming in the Fifteenth Century
Nov 2024
1:
“We Ask for Liberty”: How the Haitian and French Revolutions Influenced Each Other
Oct 2024
31:
Monthly Digest: October 2024
Oct 2024
28:
“Erect Lofty Buildings”: Monumental Architecture and Imperial Legitimacy in the Mughal Empire
Oct 2024
25:
“A Complete History of the American War”: A Global Approach to Teaching the American Revolution
Oct 2024
21:
“The Way of Ruling a State”: Tokugawa Japan and Bureaucratic Elites
Oct 2024
19:
“Their Liberty Will Form a Parallel to the History of Europe”: Teaching West Africa in the Age of Revolutions
Oct 2024
16:
“We Do Not Have Our Lives Secured”: Teaching the Age of Revolutions, c.1750 - c.1850
Oct 2024
14:
“Turned His Attention to the Land of Sudan”: Teaching the 1591 Conflict between Morocco and the Songhai
Oct 2024
12:
The Trans-Pacific Trade and the Problem with World History
Oct 2024
11:
“One of the Most Important Ports of the South Sea”: Acapulco as the Unlikely Entrepôt
Oct 2024
7:
Visualizing the Increased Use of Gunpowder
Oct 2024
4:
“The City Can Neither Go On Nor Maintain Itself without these Chinese”: Manila’s Chinese Community in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Sep 2024
30:
Monthly Digest: September 2024
Sep 2024
30:
“Because There Were No Horses”: The Colombian Exchange and Transporting Horses Across the Pacific
Sep 2024
27:
“Throw Off the Yoke of the Spanish Dominion”: Early Filipino Resistance to Spanish Rule, 1521 - c.1750
Sep 2024
23:
Asking Questions and Not Teaching Feudalism, Manorialism, and Serfdom in Late Medieval Europe
Sep 2024
20:
“We Set Sail in Search of New Spain”: The Forgotten Folks Who Made the Manila Galleons Possible
Sep 2024
16:
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in Europe
Sep 2024
15:
“The Longest and Most Dreadful Voyage in the World”: Trans-Pacific Slavery and the Early Modern Pacific, c. 1500 - c.1800
Sep 2024
13:
“Little Rain During the Monsoon”: The Culture of the Little Ice Age in Europe and India
Sep 2024
9:
“I Saved My People”: State Building in Africa, 1200 - 1450
Sep 2024
6:
“The Severe Cold in Syria”: The Little Ice Age and the Black Death in the Middle East
Sep 2024
2:
Visualizing State-Building in the Americas
Aug 2024
31:
Monthly Digest: August 2024
Aug 2024
30:
“Six Months of Winter”: New France, the Little Ice Age, and European Colonization of the Americas
Aug 2024
28:
“Seven Snowfalls Until the Spring”: The Little Ice Age and Tokugawa Japan
Aug 2024
26:
“Practice the Religion of the Buddha”: State Formation in South and Southeast Asia, 1200 - 1450
Aug 2024
24:
“The Earth Was Covered in Snow”: China and the Middle East in the Seventeenth Century
Aug 2024
22:
Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam in South and Southeast Asia
Aug 2024
20:
“The Great Mass of Snow and Hail”: Teaching the Little Ice Age, c.1300 - c.1800
Aug 2024
13:
Visualizing the Spread of Chess
Aug 2024
13:
“Eight Centuries After His Rule”: Legacies of the Mongol Empire
Aug 2024
5:
“The Name of Allah Comes from Alif”: Sufism and the Spread of Islam Among Indian Women
Aug 2024
4:
“To Let Merchants Pass in Safety”: The Chinggis Exchange
Jul 2024
31:
Monthly Digest: July 2024
Jul 2024
29:
Abu Zayd and Turks in Dar al-Islam
Jul 2024
27:
“She Who Would Direct the Affairs of State”: Teaching The Influence of Mongol Women
Jul 2024
22:
“People of All Tongues”: Teaching the Continuity of Religious Diversity in Dar al-Islam
Jul 2024
22:
“A Great Army is Mobilized”: Mongol Conquests and Governance
Jul 2024
16:
“Beginning from the North”: Teaching the Mongol Empire
Jun 2024
14:
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