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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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