Short Post
Weekly posts (published on Monday or Tuesday) highlighting a primary source (either textual or visual) that aligns with the AP Modern World History Curriculum.
“We Have Chosen the Path of Non-Alignment”: Nehru, Non-Alignment, and Third Worldism
Teaching Non-Alignment
“They Have Deprived our People of Every Democratic Liberty”: 1945 and the End of Empire
Teaching the origins of decolonization in 1945
Serio-Comic Maps, Nationalism, and the First World War
Drawing nationalism in 1914
“ Sparks and Embers from the Raging Fires”: Experiencing Firebombing and Total War in Tokyo
Using survivor accounts to teach the firebombing of Tokyo
Greater East Asia and Second World War Propaganda
Teaching the East Asian theater of the Second World War using propaganda posters
“A Situation of Complete Inertia and a Widespread Apathy”: Teaching Everyday Resistance to French Imperialism in Senegal in the 1920s and 1930s
What were the weapons of the weak in French Senegal?
“Hunger Was the Word I Heard Most”: Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan and Its Consequences
Discussion of teaching the Holodomor using primary sources
The Changing Role of Government Involvement in the Economy in the 1930s
Teaching how states worldwide took a more active approach to directing economic development in the 1930s
“The Deadliest Instrument of Warfare Yet Devised”: Teaching the Consequences of New Technology in the First World War
Discussion of primary sources for teaching the effects of poisonous gas in the First World War
Total War and the Ottoman Empire
Using Ottoman primary sources to teach total war
