“Identity is Always Complex”: Teaching the Shared Histories of Israelis and Palestinians
Discussion of how to move beyond teaching the Israeli and Palestinian conflict and instead teach the shared histories of Palestinians and Israelis from a world-historical perspective
Monthly Digest: February 2024
Digest for February 2024
“When Any of You Intend to Divorce”: Teaching Continuity and Divorce in the Medieval Islamic Middle East, c.600 - c.1600
A discussion of teaching continutiy using examples of divorce in the Islamic Middle East
“The Breath of Soviet Russia”: Teaching Soviet Industrialization and Collectivization
Discussion of images to teach Soviet industrialization
“A Rich South and a Poor North”: Southernization and Facilitating Student-Centered Discussions
Discussion of how to facilitate student-centered discussions using Southernization
“A Time for Telling”: Lectures and Narratives in a Decolonized History Course
Discussion of how we can use lectures in world history classes with a focus on the Atlantic Revolutions
“Nobody Expected Seasickness”: Oceanic Migration in the Nineteenth Century
Discussion of a primary source describing the experience of transatlantic migration in the late nineteenth century.
“Hopelessness at Home, A Secure Future Overseas”: Teaching Jewish Migration in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Discussion of teaching nineteenth and twentieth century Jewish migration in a world historical context.
“A World Shaped by Enlightenment Ideas of Race and White Supremacy”: Rethinking How We Teach the Enlightenment
Discussion of how to teach the racism of the Enlightenment
“We Should All Wear the Fez”: Ottoman Jews in the Late Nineteenth Century
Istanbul has long been one of my favorite cities. Whenever I go there, I explore a new neighborhood or visit a new site. Every trip to Istanbul leads to some new insight or anecdote relevant to teaching world history. My last visit was no different. In the summer of 2022,
