Weekly Post
Weekly Friday posts for all paying subscribers.
“Use Their Institutions to Promote Their Own Interests”: Competing Global Visions from 1975 to 1991
A discussion of how we can teach the end of the Cold War and the last decades of the twentieth century in world history.
“Maintain Friendly Relations with All Countries”: Competing Global Visions from 1945 to 1975
A discussion of how to teach the Cold War as a global event with multiple visions for the world.
“All People Oppressed by Imperialism around the World”: Competing Global Visions in the Interwar Period, 1919-1939
A discussion of how to teach the 1920s and 1930s that explores competing ideologies, including anticolonialism.
“Fighting Side by Side”: Competing Global Visions and the Great War, 1914-1918
A discussion of how we can teach a more global First World War and integrate critiques of the war.
“Live in the Vale of Peace”: Religion and the Mughals During the Reign of Aurangzeb, 1658-1707
A discussion of how to teach the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb using paintings and primary sources.
“Three Very Bad Aspects”: Europeans and the Mughals During the Reign of Shah Jahan, 1628-1658
A discussion of how the Mughals during the reign of Shah Jahan viewed Europeans.
“A Devotee of Dervishes”: The Mughal Empire During the Reign of Jahangir, 1605-1627
A discussion of how to use paintings of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir to teach about the Mughal Empire in the seventeenth century.
“A Great City”: Akbar and Fatehpur Sikri
A discussion of how to use paintings of Fatehpur Sikri to teach about the Mughal Emperor Akbar.
“Marvelously Regular and Geometric Gardens”: Babur and the Founding of the Mughal Empire
A discussion of Babur, the first Mughal Emperor, as a gardener.
“We Were Not Free”: American and Japanese Imperialism, c.1860 - c.1940
A discussion of how to teach American and Japanese imperialism using sources from the Philippines and Korea.
