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Jun 2023
2:
“Use Their Institutions to Promote Their Own Interests”: Competing Global Visions from 1975 to 1991
May 2023
31:
Monthly Digest: May 2023
May 2023
29:
“Tightly Bound in Spirt”: Vietnamese Anticolonialism in the 1930s
May 2023
10:
“Militant Unity and Solidarity”: Cuba, North Korea, and the Cold War
May 2023
8:
“Korea, like Cuba”: The Cold War Beyond the United and the Soviet Union
May 2023
5:
“Maintain Friendly Relations with All Countries”: Competing Global Visions from 1945 to 1975
May 2023
3:
Beyond the Good War: Alternative Narratives for Teaching World War II
May 2023
1:
Mauling the British: Tipu Sultan, Mysore, and Resistance to British Imperialism in India
Apr 2023
30:
Monthly Digest: April 2023
Apr 2023
29:
“All People Oppressed by Imperialism around the World”: Competing Global Visions in the Interwar Period, 1919-1939
Apr 2023
26:
Smashing the European Order: Women and the Mexican Revolution
Apr 2023
24:
“Overthrow of the Dictatorial Elements”: The Goals of the Mexican Revolution
Apr 2023
21:
“Fighting Side by Side”: Competing Global Visions and the Great War, 1914-1918
Apr 2023
17:
“An Age of Questioning”: Reimagining the Teaching of the Twentieth Century
Apr 2023
14:
“Live in the Vale of Peace”: Religion and the Mughals During the Reign of Aurangzeb, 1658-1707
Apr 2023
12:
More Thunderbolts: Gunpowder and the Ottoman Empire
Apr 2023
10:
“Thunderbolt of Wrath”: Gunpowder and the Mughal Empire
Apr 2023
7:
“Three Very Bad Aspects”: Europeans and the Mughals During the Reign of Shah Jahan, 1628-1658
Apr 2023
5:
“Complete and Immediate Independence for the Vietnamese People”: Vietnamese Anticolonialism in the 1920s and 1930s
Apr 2023
1:
Monthly Digest: March 2023
Mar 2023
31:
“A Devotee of Dervishes”: The Mughal Empire During the Reign of Jahangir, 1605-1627
Mar 2023
24:
“A Great City”: Akbar and Fatehpur Sikri
Mar 2023
17:
“Marvelously Regular and Geometric Gardens”: Babur and the Founding of the Mughal Empire
Mar 2023
15:
“A Generous Gift from Timur and Akbar”: Snapshots from the Mughal Empire
Mar 2023
12:
“Its Immediate Effects Have Been Simply Disastrous”: Some Thoughts on Teaching New Imperialism
Mar 2023
10:
“We Were Not Free”: American and Japanese Imperialism, c.1860 - c.1940
Mar 2023
6:
“To Fight to the Last”: Historical Imagination and African Resistance to New Imperialism
Mar 2023
3:
“A Period of Hatred and Despair”: Middle East and North Africa in the Era of New Imperialism, c.1830 - c.1940
Feb 2023
28:
Monthly Digest: February 2023
Feb 2023
24:
“Among a Kindred People”: The Pacific Islands in the Era of New Imperialism, c.1840 - c.1930
Feb 2023
17:
“We Begged the White Men to Leave Us Alone”: Teaching Africa in the Era of New Imperialism, c.1880 - c.1840
Feb 2023
15:
“We Thought it Best to Fight”: Teaching British-Ruled Africa in the Era of New Imperialism, c.1880 - c.1930
Feb 2023
10:
“The European Makes Himself Ridiculous”: Teaching Southeast Asia in the Era of New Imperialism, c.1880 - c.1940
Feb 2023
3:
“British boxing versus Indian fisticuffs”: South Asia in the Era of New Imperialism, c.1860 - c.1940
Jan 2023
31:
Monthly Digest: January 2023
Jan 2023
27:
“The Invaders Will Know No Tranquility”: The Transition to New Imperialism, 1840-1880
Jan 2023
20:
“Pilfering Our Resources”: Teaching the Causes of New Imperialism with Primary Sources
Jan 2023
15:
“White Devils All Over Asia”: Teaching New Imperialism, c.1850 - c.1940
Jan 2023
13:
“Excessive Labor and Confinement”: Historical Imagination and the Urban Working Class
Jan 2023
6:
“Making a Great Profit”: Historical Imagination and the Opium Trade
Dec 2022
31:
Monthly Digest: December 2022
Dec 2022
30:
“Men so Heartless”: Historical Imagination and Potosí
Dec 2022
23:
“Ruined and Plundered and Burned”: Historical Imagination, Lascars, and the Portuguese Arrival in the Indian Ocean
Dec 2022
16:
“The Principle of Self-Determination”: Historical Imagination and Indian Home Rule in 1919
Dec 2022
15:
“Seventeen small jugs of soap”: Inviting Historical Imagination into the Classroom
Dec 2022
11:
What the Griot Said: Teaching Medieval West Africa
Dec 2022
9:
“Each is the child of his mother”: Historical Imagination and Gender in Medieval West Africa
Dec 2022
2:
“In Conformity to Mecca”: Islam and Medieval West Africa, c.1000 - c.1600
Nov 2022
30:
Monthly Digest: November 2022
Nov 2022
27:
Mapping Medieval West African States
Nov 2022
25:
“Many Kings and Many Mansas”: Teaching the Politics of the Mali and Songhay Empires, c.1200 - 1591
Nov 2022
18:
“The World Knew Happiness”: West Africa and the Afroeurasian Economy, c.1200 - c.1600
Nov 2022
15:
“Men of the Spoken Word”: Teaching West Africa, c.1200 - c.1600
Nov 2022
12:
A Visual History of the Ottoman Empire
Nov 2022
11:
“We Understand the Railway’s Advantages”: Ottoman Railroads and Modernization in 1900
Nov 2022
4:
“A Right Notion of Life”: The Ottomans in 1700
Nov 2022
1:
“To take lads for the Janissaries”: Making Sense of the Devşirme
Oct 2022
31:
Monthly Digest: October 2022
Oct 2022
28:
An Elephant in Belgrade: The Ottoman Empire as an Afroeurasian Empire in the Sixteenth Century
Oct 2022
21:
“A Great and Important City”: Bursa and the Beginning of the Ottoman Empire
Oct 2022
15:
“Addicted to the Coffeehouse”: Snapshots from the Ottoman Empire
Oct 2022
14:
“A Total Abolition of Slavery”: The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave System
Oct 2022
7:
“At Last I Defended Myself”: 400 Years of Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave System
Sep 2022
30:
Monthly Digest: September 2022
Sep 2022
30:
“Suffering the Most Excruciating Torments”: The Height of the Transatlantic Slave System, 1650-1850
Sep 2022
23:
“We Cannot Reckon How Great the Damage Is”: Origins of the Transatlantic Slave System, c.1450 - c.1650
Sep 2022
16:
From Dublin to Shandong: Slavery and Slaving in Afroeurasia before 1400 C.E.
Sep 2022
15:
“If there were no buyers there would be no sellers”: Teaching the Transatlantic Slave System, c.1450 - c.1850
Sep 2022
11:
A New Narrative for Liberating Narratives
Sep 2021
10:
Stepping Out from Zheng He’s Shadow: World History, Ming China, and Greater East Asia in the Fifteenth Century
Oct 2020
13:
"People Who Have Interrupted Empire": African and Indigenous Resistance in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
Feb 2019
9:
Less Scrambling, More Reflecting: How We Can Better Teach about the European Colonization of Africa
Feb 2019
2:
What We Can Learn from a Pair of Skating Owls: Teaching the Little Ice Age and its Importance for Today
Jan 2019
30:
Revolutionary Revolutions: Rethinking how we teach the political revolutions between 1750 and 1900
Jan 2019
27:
Goodbye Paperless History, Hello Liberating Narratives
Jan 2019
4:
A Revolutionary Challenge: The Túpac Amaru Rebellion and Rethinking the Atlantic Revolutions
Nov 2018
5:
Two Views of Global Lisbon
Oct 2018
26:
More than Four Turtles: Global Renaissances in the Fifteenth Century (Part II)
Oct 2018
24:
More than Four Turtles: Global Renaissances in the Fifteenth Century (Part I)
Oct 2018
22:
Don’t Call It a Comeback: Afroeurasian Revivals in the Fifteenth Century
Oct 2018
21:
Decolonizing Modern World History
Mar 2016
17:
Healing the Sick Man of Europe
Mar 2016
13:
A Global Historical Take on American Debates about Free Trade
Feb 2016
10:
Globalizing the Renaissance
Feb 2016
3:
When the End of Growth is not the Beginning of Decline
Jan 2016
30:
Teaching World History in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Jan 2016
25:
Eurocentrism and the Myth of East Asian Isolation
Jan 2016
16:
The Sound of History
Jan 2016
6:
Explanations, Conjunctures, and Teaching about the Islamic State
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