Archive

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: Summer Break and Summer Special

Jun 2024

14: A Wealth of Haitian Revolution Resources

Jun 2024

3: “Famous Fabric Stores”: Song Chinese Silk

May 2024

31: Monthly Digest: May 2024

May 2024

31: “Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific”: Teaching Decolonization and the Cold War in the Pacific

May 2024

29: The Popularity of East Asian Buddhist Woodblock Prints

May 2024

28: “Taken the Examination More than Twenty Times”: The Chinese Examination System

May 2024

27: “I Will Shoot the Lions”: Nur Jahan and Mughal Women

May 2024

25: “Improve the Quality of Life of the Majority of Its People”: Integrating Indigenous Perspectives in the Teaching of Guatemala and the Cold War

May 2024

23: “They Forge Their Own Iron Work”: The Transatlantic Slave System, African Iron Working, the Industrial Revolution, and Reflecting on Our Work

May 2024

10: “Escape the Prison of Our Narrative”: Teaching Israeli and Palestinian Nonviolence

May 2024

3: Monthly Digest: April 2024

May 2024

1: “Because of Him We Have Many Things”: Two Fun Commercials for Teaching the End of the Cold War

May 2024

1: “Singing Two Different Lullabies at the Same Time”: Using Political Cartoons to Teach British Palestine, 1936-1948

Apr 2024

25: “Strengthening the Economic and Social Stability of the Region”: Teaching Regional Trade Agreements and Southeast Asia

Apr 2024

24: “A Kind of Mutual Understanding Prevailed”: Competing Visions of Mandatory Palestine’s Future, 1920-1936

Apr 2024

17: “Hebrew with an Arabic Accent”: Teaching Israeli and Palestinian Shared History with Short Stories

Apr 2024

15: “The Green Revolution Has Been a Team Effort”: Globalizing How We Teach the Green Revolution

Apr 2024

14: “We Are All Poor Nowadays”: From Ottoman Palestine to British Mandatory Palestine, 1914-1920

Apr 2024

8: “A Localized, Global Network of Resistance”: Teaching Resistance to Economic Globalization

Apr 2024

8: “Study and Understand the Psyche of Our Neighbors”: Palestinian and Zionist Exchanges, 1899-1914

Apr 2024

1: “Improves the Conditions of the Colonies”: The First Zionist Settlements in Ottoman Palestine

Mar 2024

31: Monthly Digest: March 2024

Mar 2024

29: “Palestine Is Our Ever-Memorable Historic Home”: The Development of Zionism and the First Zionists in Ottoman Palestine

Mar 2024

26: “When I Came to Jerusalem”: Teaching the Social Changes of Industrialization using Nineteenth Century Jerusalem

Mar 2024

24: “The Young Man Loved Jaffa”: Ottoman Palestine in the Late Nineteenth Century

Mar 2024

18: “Identity is Always Complex”: Teaching the Shared Histories of Israelis and Palestinians

Feb 2024

29: Monthly Digest: February 2024

Feb 2024

23: “When Any of You Intend to Divorce”: Teaching Continuity and Divorce in the Medieval Islamic Middle East, c.600 - c.1600

Feb 2024

19: “The Breath of Soviet Russia”: Teaching Soviet Industrialization and Collectivization

Feb 2024

16: “A Rich South and a Poor North”: Southernization and Facilitating Student-Centered Discussions

Feb 2024

15: “A Time for Telling”: Lectures and Narratives in a Decolonized History Course

Feb 2024

12: “Nobody Expected Seasickness”: Oceanic Migration in the Nineteenth Century

Feb 2024

10: “Hopelessness at Home, A Secure Future Overseas”: Teaching Jewish Migration in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Feb 2024

5: “A World Shaped by Enlightenment Ideas of Race and White Supremacy”: Rethinking How We Teach the Enlightenment

Feb 2024

3: “We Should All Wear the Fez”: Ottoman Jews in the Late Nineteenth Century

Jan 2024

31: Monthly Digest: January 2024

Jan 2024

29: “The Disease Brought Great Desolation”: An Indigenous Account of the Great Dying

Jan 2024

26: “He Has Favored Us”: Amsterdam’s Jewish Community and the Transatlantic Slave System in the Seventeenth Century

Jan 2024

22: “Desist from Deporting the Jews”: Jews and the Ottoman Empire in the Late Sixteenth Century

Jan 2024

20: “Turks Hold Respectable Jews in Esteem”: Jews and the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth Century

Jan 2024

16: “A Commerical Market for All Nations”: Benjamin of Tudela’s Descriptions of Baghdad and Alexandria

Jan 2024

15: “Write Me a Letter Every Week”: Afroeurasian Trade and Integrating Jews into World History

Jan 2024

12: “The Enemies of Colonialism and Racism”: Intersectionality and Teaching Decolonization after 1965

Jan 2024

8: “The Present Thinking of the World”: Decolonization in Jamaica and the British Caribbean

Jan 2024

5: “To Destroy the Colonial World”: Teaching Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Decolonization

Jan 2024

1: “The Total Liberation of the African Continent”: Kwame Nkrumah’s Independence Speech and Decolonization

Dec 2023

31: Monthly Digest: December 2023

Dec 2023

30: “Ardently Desire the End of Colonialism”: Teaching Decolonization from 1955 to 1965

Dec 2023

22: “We Will Fight in Every Way We Can”: Teaching Decolonization from 1945 to 1955

Dec 2023

18: “Conscious of Myself as a Kenya African”: The Effect of the Second World War on Colonial African Soldiers

Dec 2023

15: “The Outbreak of the Present War”: Decolonization During and After the Second World War

Dec 2023

11: “On the Path of Liberation”: Chinese Anticolonialism in the 1920s and 1930s

Dec 2023

8: “Those Who Suffer Under Colonial Oppression Must Join Hands”: International Anticolonialism in the Interwar Years

Dec 2023

4: Discussing the Legacy of New Imperialism in the Classroom

Dec 2023

4: “A Free State with Full Sovereignty”: Amazigh (Berber) Anticolonialism and the Republic of the Rif in Morocco

Dec 2023

3: “Indirect Ways of Expressing our Patriotism”: Centering Women in Teaching Anticolonialism in the 1920s and 1930s

Nov 2023

30: Monthly Digest: November 2023

Nov 2023

28: “Expose the Hollowness of Moral Pretensions”: Gandhi on Non-cooperation and Anticolonialism in 1920

Nov 2023

27: “The World Will Be Reconstructed”: Four Visions of Anticolonialism in 1920

Nov 2023

21: The Best History Lesson…. Is the One You Design Yourself

Nov 2023

20: “All the Women of Cairo Would Have Taken Part”: Huda Sha’arawi and Egyptian Women’s Participation in the 1919 Revolution

Nov 2023

17: “For the Right of Every People to Govern Themselves”: Challenging Empire in 1919

Nov 2023

15: “Colonialism in all its Manifestations is an Evil”: Teaching Decolonization, 1914 to Present

Nov 2023

13: Visualizing the Continuity of Asian Trade Networks in Sixteenth-Century Japanese Nanban Screens

Nov 2023

10: “Let These Sacred Words Unite Us”: The Haitian Revolution, Creative Expression, and Teaching Analytical Writing

Nov 2023

6: “Nothing Remained of the Houses”: Indigenous American Resistance to Columbus’ First Settlement in the Americas

Nov 2023

3: “By Love and Friendship Rather than by Force”: Columbus’ First Description of Indigenous Americans and Student Participation

Oct 2023

31: Monthly Digest: October 2023

Oct 2023

30: “The Function of Militarism is to Kill”: Emma Goldman and Questioning the First World War

Oct 2023

27: “They Know the Peacebreakers but not the Peacemakers”: Teaching Dissent, Pacifism, and Women’s Activism in the First World War

Oct 2023

23: “To Make Their Escape, and Mutiny”: Enslaved African Resistance During the Middle Passage

Oct 2023

20: “We Must Not Refuse Them”: Finding African Voices and Stories in the Transatlantic Slave System

Oct 2023

16: “We the Natives of Togo”: Polite Resistance to Imperialism in German Togoland

Oct 2023

16: “The Questions Were Asked by the Teachers”: Decolonizing Pedagogy in World History Classrooms

Oct 2023

14: Rethinking Industrialization and the Nineteenth-Century Global Economy

Oct 2023

13: “Organizing the Rice Fields”: Teaching Southeast Asia’s Nineteenth-Century Production Revolution

Oct 2023

9: “Everything Can be Done Peacefully and Without Force”: Queen Njinga and the Portuguese

Oct 2023

6: “The Increase of Plantations”: Teaching West Africa’s Nineteenth-Century Production Revolution

Oct 2023

2: “There is One God”: Teaching Sikhism and Syncretism

Oct 2023

1: Monthly Digest: September 2023

Sep 2023

30: “The Air is Filled with the Stink of Jute”: Teaching South Asia’s Nineteenth-Century Production Revolution

Sep 2023

25: “The Means for Promoting Good Order”: Administering the Ottoman Empire

Sep 2023

22: “To Render Cairo a Second Manchester”: Teaching Egypt’s Nineteenth Century Production Revolution

Sep 2023

18: “Being Deeply Concerned with Agriculture”: The Spread of Champa Rice, and some surprises

Sep 2023

17: “Workmen Constantly Employed”: Teaching Mass Production and Industrialization in the Long Nineteenth Century

Sep 2023

15: Destruction, Creation, and Preservation: Some Thoughts on Teaching the Haitian Revolution

Sep 2023

15: “Haiti Has Borne the Weight of a Heavy Debt”: Teaching the Long-Term Effects of the Haitian Revolution

Sep 2023

11: “An Edict of the Khan”: Two Narratives of the Mongols

Sep 2023

8: “The Way They Did in Saint Domingo”: The Haitian Revolution and the Atlantic World

Sep 2023

4: “The Plague Increased and Spread Further”: The Spread of the Black Death

Sep 2023

2: Monthly Digest: August 2023

Sep 2023

1: “Those Who Refuse Slavery”: Teaching the Short-Term Effects of the Haitian Revolution

Aug 2023

28: “Cairo Had Become an Abandoned Desert”: The Black Death in Egypt

Aug 2023

25: “The Sacred Flame of Liberté”: Teaching the Revolution of the Haitian Revolution

Aug 2023

18: “Revenge Our Wrongs”: Saint-Domingue Before the Haitian Revolution

Aug 2023

15: “We Have Dared to be Free”: Teaching the Haitian Revolution

Aug 2023

14: “Sales, Auctions, and Exchanges Go on Constantly”: The Song Chinese Economy

Aug 2023

11: “Zapata spoke Nahuatl”: Indigenous Mexicans Participating in the Mexican Revolution

Aug 2023

7: The Last Supper in Cuzco: Indigenizing Christianity in the Andes

Aug 2023

4: “Fought Against the Army”: Indigenous Americans and Argentina’s “Golden Age” (c.1875 - c.1920)

Jul 2023

31: Monthly Digest: July 2023

Jul 2023

31: “Know How to Treat Indians”: Indigenous American Resistance to the British Attempts at Christianization

Jul 2023

28: “You Glory in Our Old Rags”: Indigenous Americans and the Fur Trade in Northern America, c.1600 - c.1800

Jul 2023

24: “Indian Parents Defend their Daughter”: Indigenous Resistance in Early Seventeenth Century Peru

Jul 2023

22: “We Will Follow That Which Our Ancestors Followed”: Indigenous Agency and Navigating the Changes in Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica

Jul 2023

20: “Peace Was Made with the Carios”: Snapshots from Indigenous American History

Jul 2023

18: “The Number of Chinese Appears to be Very Considerable”: The Chinese Diaspora in Southeast in the Early Nineteenth Century

Jul 2023

18: “Filled with Various Races”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Long Nineteenth Century

Jul 2023

13: “Chinese Came In Droves”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Jul 2023

10: “Entered Malabar and Built Mosques”: The Spread of Islam in Southern India

Jul 2023

6: “The Unspun Thread for the Message of Allah”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Jul 2023

2: “Returning from the Western Ocean”: Giraffes in Ming China

Jul 2023

1: “Merchants From All Quarters”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network, c.1000 - c.1500

Jun 2023

26: Voices of the Southern Front: Decolonizing our Teaching of the First World War

Jun 2023

17: “Foreign Ships from Every Place”: The Indian Ocean as a Network of Exchange, c.1000-c.1900

Jun 2023

12: “To Fend for Existence in the Poorest Conditions”: Women and Decolonization in 1963

Jun 2023

10: “Their Voices Must Be Heard”: Women, Intersectionality, and Competing Global Visions in the Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

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 States 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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AP World Unit 1⁽³²⁾

Ottoman Empire⁽³¹⁾

Latin America⁽³⁰⁾

AP World Unit 2⁽²⁸⁾

Monthly Post⁽²⁷⁾

Monthly Digest⁽²⁶⁾

Islam⁽²³⁾

Caribbean⁽²³⁾

West Africa⁽²³⁾

new imperialism⁽²²⁾

Transatlantic slave system⁽²¹⁾

Americas⁽²⁰⁾

Classic post⁽²⁰⁾

Palestine⁽¹⁹⁾

decolonization⁽¹⁹⁾

travel⁽¹⁷⁾

Egypt⁽¹⁷⁾

Imperialism⁽¹⁶⁾

Indian Ocean⁽¹⁶⁾

Indigenous Americans⁽¹⁶⁾

Women⁽¹⁵⁾

North America⁽¹⁵⁾

pedagogy⁽¹⁵⁾

Bonus Post⁽¹⁵⁾

AP World Unit 9⁽¹⁴⁾

Israel⁽¹⁴⁾

South America⁽¹³⁾

United States⁽¹³⁾

Economics⁽¹²⁾

Indigenous peoples⁽¹²⁾

Vietnam⁽¹²⁾

Britain⁽¹²⁾

industrialization⁽¹²⁾

Indonesia⁽¹²⁾

Mughal Empire⁽¹²⁾

anticolonialism⁽¹²⁾

Jewry⁽¹²⁾

Central Asia⁽¹¹⁾

Gender⁽¹¹⁾

Japan⁽¹¹⁾

Teaching⁽¹¹⁾

Haiti⁽¹¹⁾

Judaism⁽¹⁰⁾

Singapore⁽⁹⁾

Mexico⁽⁹⁾

North Africa⁽⁹⁾

Cold War⁽⁹⁾

East Africa⁽⁸⁾

migration⁽⁸⁾

Christianity⁽⁸⁾

Little Ice Age⁽⁷⁾

Turkey⁽⁷⁾

Slavery⁽⁷⁾

creative writing⁽⁷⁾

France⁽⁷⁾

Malaysia⁽⁷⁾

Philippines⁽⁷⁾

Pacific Ocean⁽⁷⁾

Portugal⁽⁶⁾

First World War⁽⁶⁾

Dar al-Islam⁽⁶⁾

Mongolia⁽⁶⁾

Mongol Empire⁽⁶⁾

Afroeurasia⁽⁵⁾

Eurocentrism⁽⁵⁾

Tanzania⁽⁵⁾

Senegal⁽⁵⁾

Soviet Union⁽⁵⁾

Second World War⁽⁵⁾

Hinduism⁽⁵⁾

Central America⁽⁵⁾

Resistance⁽⁴⁾

Algeria⁽⁴⁾

feminism⁽⁴⁾

Morocco⁽⁴⁾

Buddhism⁽⁴⁾

Nigeria⁽⁴⁾

Renaissance⁽³⁾

religion⁽³⁾

Ethiopia⁽³⁾

Thailand⁽³⁾

Jamaica⁽³⁾

Myanmar⁽³⁾

communism⁽³⁾

Netherlands⁽³⁾

Atlantic Revolutions⁽²⁾

Environment⁽²⁾

modernity⁽²⁾

Balkans⁽²⁾

Gold Coast⁽²⁾

Pacific Islands⁽²⁾

Oceania⁽²⁾

Gunpowder⁽²⁾

European Order⁽²⁾

World War II⁽²⁾

North Korea⁽²⁾

Great War⁽²⁾

World War I⁽²⁾

Swahili Coast⁽²⁾

Mesoamerica⁽²⁾

Mexica Empire⁽²⁾

Guatemala⁽²⁾

Argentina⁽²⁾

syncretism⁽²⁾

Bangladesh⁽²⁾

Sikhism⁽²⁾

Lithuania⁽²⁾

Cambodia⁽²⁾

Qajar Empire⁽²⁾

Abolition⁽¹⁾

Politics⁽¹⁾

silver trade⁽¹⁾

Australia⁽¹⁾

Namibia⁽¹⁾

New Zealand⁽¹⁾

Northeast Asia⁽¹⁾

Ibn Battuta⁽¹⁾

Holocaust⁽¹⁾

Third Worldism⁽¹⁾

Istanbul⁽¹⁾

climate crisis⁽¹⁾

Ming Dynasty⁽¹⁾

Gujarat⁽¹⁾

Paraguay⁽¹⁾

Charleston⁽¹⁾

Song Dynasty⁽¹⁾

Barbados⁽¹⁾

Southernization⁽¹⁾

Pakistan⁽¹⁾

Tunisia⁽¹⁾

Zimbabwe⁽¹⁾

Mozambique⁽¹⁾

Mediterranean⁽¹⁾

Mamluk Sultanate⁽¹⁾

Sierra Leone⁽¹⁾

Safavid Empire⁽¹⁾

Puerto Rico⁽¹⁾

Ireland⁽¹⁾

Workshop⁽⁰⁾