AP World Unit 7
“Our Postcards of Pain”: Teaching the Anticolonial Protests of 1919
Discussion of teaching the Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar) Massacre and the anticolonial protests of 1919
“We the Women Will Fight”: Africa in the Forty Years’ War
Discussion of teaching Africa in the world wars
“A Turning Point in My Life”: East Asia in the Forty Years’ War
Discussion of teaching East Asia in the World Wars
“Such a State is Bound to Disappear”: The Middle East in the Forty Years’ War
Discussion of teaching the Middle East during the World Wars
“Every Continent is Affected”: The Forty Years’ War and Decolonizing How We Teach the World Wars
Discussion of teaching the world wars from a global perspective
“Singing Two Different Lullabies at the Same Time”: Using Political Cartoons to Teach British Palestine, 1936-1948
Discussion of Palestinian and Jewish political cartoons from the 1930s and 1940s
“A Kind of Mutual Understanding Prevailed”: Competing Visions of Mandatory Palestine’s Future, 1920-1936
Discussion of teaching Israeli and Palestinian shared history between 1920 and 1936
“Hebrew with an Arabic Accent”: Teaching Israeli and Palestinian Shared History with Short Stories
Discussion of using short stories to teach twentieth century Israeli and Palestinian history
“We Are All Poor Nowadays”: From Ottoman Palestine to British Mandatory Palestine, 1914-1920
Discussion of teaching the experiences of Palestinians and Israelis during the First World War
“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
