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Apr 2025

“Evidences of Comfort and Comparative Civilization”: Teaching Industrialization and Improved Living Standards

Apr 2025

“The Voice of National Self-Determination Has Swept the World”: Teaching the East Asian Uprisings of 1919

Apr 2025

“To Start a Bank in China”: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Transnational Businesses

Apr 2025

“To Marry Egypt to Liberty and Independence”: Teaching the Egyptian Revolution of 1919

Mar 2025

Monthly Digest: March 2025

Mar 2025

Teaching the Spread of Nineteenth Century “Free Trade” with Cartoons

Mar 2025

“Rid Ourselves of the Vampire”: The Irish Fight for Independence and Its Global Impact

Mar 2025

“Our Postcards of Pain”: Teaching the Anticolonial Protests of 1919

Mar 2025

“Foreign Customs are Now Generally Understood Throughout Japan”: Foreign Influence on Japanese Reform in the Nineteenth Century

Mar 2025

“Successfully Compete with the British”: Contemporary Accounts of Muhammad Ali’s Industrial Experiment

Mar 2025

Steamships and the Hajj

Mar 2025

“Steel is the Mother of Industry”: Teaching the Second Industrial Revolution in Japan

Feb 2025

“An Explosion Took Place”: Teaching the Consequences of Coal Mining

Feb 2025

“The Lesson to be Drawn for Japan”: The Origins of Japanese Industrialization

Feb 2025

“We the Women Will Fight”: Africa in the Forty Years’ War

Feb 2025

“The Parsis Built all these Ships without any Assistance from the English”: Indian Shipbuilding in the 1800s

Feb 2025

“A Turning Point in My Life”: East Asia in the Forty Years’ War

Jan 2025

“Great Number of Hands Congregated Together”: Teaching the Origins of the Factory System

Jan 2025

“Despierta, borinqueño”: Teaching Early Puerto Rican Nationalism

Jan 2025

“Such a State is Bound to Disappear”: The Middle East in the Forty Years’ War

Jan 2025

“Every Continent is Affected”: The Forty Years’ War and Decolonizing How We Teach the World Wars

Jan 2025

“The Example of the United States”: Simon Bolivar’s Mixed Feelings

Jan 2025

“Freedom of Trade in Opium”: Teaching Opium Production and Trade in the Late Nineteenth Century

Dec 2024

Monthly Digest: December 2024

Dec 2024

“They All Must Have Opium”: The Diversity of the British Opium Trade

Dec 2024

“Opium Was One of Those Things”: Rethinking How We Teach the Nineteenth-Century Opium Trade

Dec 2024

Teaching the Origins of Nationalism

Dec 2024

“Living Between Worlds”: Global Migration Since 1960

Dec 2024

“Looking For Hope, Betterment”: Global Migration, c.1920 - c.1960

Dec 2024

“Wages of Females Shall Be Equal”: Early Feminism in the Lowell Mills

Dec 2024

“I Left My Land to Come to Demerara”: Global Migration, c.1830 - c.1920

Dec 2024

“Ought to Be Abolished”: Teaching Black Influence on the Abolitionist Movement

Dec 2024

Afroeurasia, Not Afro-Eurasia

Nov 2024

“One May Be a Qadi, a Mullah, or a Sheikh, a Yogi”: Teaching the Origins of Sikhism

Nov 2024

“Longing for their Homes”: The Middle Passage and the Development of Modern Migration, 1700 to 1830

Nov 2024

“Frequently Invaded Iran”: Relations between the Ottoman and Safavid Empires

Nov 2024

“The Voyage Was Full of Dangers”: Teaching Modern Migration, 1700 to Present

Nov 2024

Visualizing Christianity, c.1500 - c.1725

Nov 2024

“As a United Nation”: Teaching Black and Indigenous Participation in the Spanish American Revolutions

Nov 2024

“The Tax Officials are to Pay Installments”: Ottoman Tax Farming in the Fifteenth Century

Nov 2024

“We Ask for Liberty”: How the Haitian and French Revolutions Influenced Each Other

Oct 2024

Monthly Digest: October 2024

Oct 2024

“Erect Lofty Buildings”: Monumental Architecture and Imperial Legitimacy in the Mughal Empire

Oct 2024

“A Complete History of the American War”: A Global Approach to Teaching the American Revolution

Oct 2024

“The Way of Ruling a State”: Tokugawa Japan and Bureaucratic Elites

Oct 2024

“Their Liberty Will Form a Parallel to the History of Europe”: Teaching West Africa in the Age of Revolutions

Oct 2024

“We Do Not Have Our Lives Secured”: Teaching the Age of Revolutions, c.1750 - c.1850

Oct 2024

“Turned His Attention to the Land of Sudan”: Teaching the 1591 Conflict between Morocco and the Songhai

Oct 2024

The Trans-Pacific Trade and the Problem with World History

Oct 2024

“One of the Most Important Ports of the South Sea”: Acapulco as the Unlikely Entrepôt

Oct 2024

Visualizing the Increased Use of Gunpowder

Oct 2024

“The City Can Neither Go On Nor Maintain Itself without these Chinese”: Manila’s Chinese Community in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Sep 2024

Monthly Digest: September 2024

Sep 2024

“Because There Were No Horses”: The Colombian Exchange and Transporting Horses Across the Pacific

Sep 2024

“Throw Off the Yoke of the Spanish Dominion”: Early Filipino Resistance to Spanish Rule, 1521 - c.1750

Sep 2024

Asking Questions and Not Teaching Feudalism, Manorialism, and Serfdom in Late Medieval Europe

Sep 2024

“We Set Sail in Search of New Spain”: The Forgotten Folks Who Made the Manila Galleons Possible

Sep 2024

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in Europe

Sep 2024

“The Longest and Most Dreadful Voyage in the World”: Trans-Pacific Slavery and the Early Modern Pacific, c. 1500 - c.1800

Sep 2024

“Little Rain During the Monsoon”: The Culture of the Little Ice Age in Europe and India

Sep 2024

“I Saved My People”: State Building in Africa, 1200 - 1450

Sep 2024

“The Severe Cold in Syria”: The Little Ice Age and the Black Death in the Middle East

Sep 2024

Visualizing State-Building in the Americas

Aug 2024

Monthly Digest: August 2024

Aug 2024

“Six Months of Winter”: New France, the Little Ice Age, and European Colonization of the Americas

Aug 2024

“Seven Snowfalls Until the Spring”: The Little Ice Age and Tokugawa Japan

Aug 2024

“Practice the Religion of the Buddha”: State Formation in South and Southeast Asia, 1200 - 1450

Aug 2024

“The Earth Was Covered in Snow”: China and the Middle East in the Seventeenth Century

Aug 2024

Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam in South and Southeast Asia

Aug 2024

“The Great Mass of Snow and Hail”: Teaching the Little Ice Age, c.1300 - c.1800

Aug 2024

Visualizing the Spread of Chess

Aug 2024

“Eight Centuries After His Rule”: Legacies of the Mongol Empire

Aug 2024

“The Name of Allah Comes from Alif”: Sufism and the Spread of Islam Among Indian Women

Aug 2024

“To Let Merchants Pass in Safety”: The Chinggis Exchange

Jul 2024

Monthly Digest: July 2024

Jul 2024

Abu Zayd and Turks in Dar al-Islam

Jul 2024

“She Who Would Direct the Affairs of State”: Teaching The Influence of Mongol Women

Jul 2024

“People of All Tongues”: Teaching the Continuity of Religious Diversity in Dar al-Islam

Jul 2024

“A Great Army is Mobilized”: Mongol Conquests and Governance

Jul 2024

“Beginning from the North”: Teaching the Mongol Empire

Jun 2024

Summer Break and Summer Special

Jun 2024

A Wealth of Haitian Revolution Resources

Jun 2024

“Famous Fabric Stores”: Song Chinese Silk

May 2024

Monthly Digest: May 2024

May 2024

“Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific”: Teaching Decolonization and the Cold War in the Pacific

May 2024

The Popularity of East Asian Buddhist Woodblock Prints

May 2024

“Taken the Examination More than Twenty Times”: The Chinese Examination System

May 2024

“I Will Shoot the Lions”: Nur Jahan and Mughal Women

May 2024

“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

“They Forge Their Own Iron Work”: The Transatlantic Slave System, African Iron Working, the Industrial Revolution, and Reflecting on Our Work

May 2024

“Escape the Prison of Our Narrative”: Teaching Israeli and Palestinian Nonviolence

May 2024

Monthly Digest: April 2024

May 2024

“Because of Him We Have Many Things”: Two Fun Commercials for Teaching the End of the Cold War

May 2024

“Singing Two Different Lullabies at the Same Time”: Using Political Cartoons to Teach British Palestine, 1936-1948

Apr 2024

“Strengthening the Economic and Social Stability of the Region”: Teaching Regional Trade Agreements and Southeast Asia

Apr 2024

“A Kind of Mutual Understanding Prevailed”: Competing Visions of Mandatory Palestine’s Future, 1920-1936

Apr 2024

“Hebrew with an Arabic Accent”: Teaching Israeli and Palestinian Shared History with Short Stories

Apr 2024

“The Green Revolution Has Been a Team Effort”: Globalizing How We Teach the Green Revolution

Apr 2024

“We Are All Poor Nowadays”: From Ottoman Palestine to British Mandatory Palestine, 1914-1920

Apr 2024

“A Localized, Global Network of Resistance”: Teaching Resistance to Economic Globalization

Apr 2024

“Study and Understand the Psyche of Our Neighbors”: Palestinian and Zionist Exchanges, 1899-1914

Apr 2024

“Improves the Conditions of the Colonies”: The First Zionist Settlements in Ottoman Palestine

Mar 2024

Monthly Digest: March 2024

Mar 2024

“Palestine Is Our Ever-Memorable Historic Home”: The Development of Zionism and the First Zionists in Ottoman Palestine

Mar 2024

“When I Came to Jerusalem”: Teaching the Social Changes of Industrialization using Nineteenth Century Jerusalem

Mar 2024

“The Young Man Loved Jaffa”: Ottoman Palestine in the Late Nineteenth Century

Mar 2024

“Identity is Always Complex”: Teaching the Shared Histories of Israelis and Palestinians

Feb 2024

Monthly Digest: February 2024

Feb 2024

“When Any of You Intend to Divorce”: Teaching Continuity and Divorce in the Medieval Islamic Middle East, c.600 - c.1600

Feb 2024

“The Breath of Soviet Russia”: Teaching Soviet Industrialization and Collectivization

Feb 2024

“A Rich South and a Poor North”: Southernization and Facilitating Student-Centered Discussions

Feb 2024

“A Time for Telling”: Lectures and Narratives in a Decolonized History Course

Feb 2024

“Nobody Expected Seasickness”: Oceanic Migration in the Nineteenth Century

Feb 2024

“Hopelessness at Home, A Secure Future Overseas”: Teaching Jewish Migration in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Feb 2024

“A World Shaped by Enlightenment Ideas of Race and White Supremacy”: Rethinking How We Teach the Enlightenment

Feb 2024

“We Should All Wear the Fez”: Ottoman Jews in the Late Nineteenth Century

Jan 2024

Monthly Digest: January 2024

Jan 2024

“The Disease Brought Great Desolation”: An Indigenous Account of the Great Dying

Jan 2024

“He Has Favored Us”: Amsterdam’s Jewish Community and the Transatlantic Slave System in the Seventeenth Century

Jan 2024

“Desist from Deporting the Jews”: Jews and the Ottoman Empire in the Late Sixteenth Century

Jan 2024

“Turks Hold Respectable Jews in Esteem”: Jews and the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth Century

Jan 2024

“A Commerical Market for All Nations”: Benjamin of Tudela’s Descriptions of Baghdad and Alexandria

Jan 2024

“Write Me a Letter Every Week”: Afroeurasian Trade and Integrating Jews into World History

Jan 2024

“The Enemies of Colonialism and Racism”: Intersectionality and Teaching Decolonization after 1965

Jan 2024

“The Present Thinking of the World”: Decolonization in Jamaica and the British Caribbean

Jan 2024

“To Destroy the Colonial World”: Teaching Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Decolonization

Jan 2024

“The Total Liberation of the African Continent”: Kwame Nkrumah’s Independence Speech and Decolonization

Dec 2023

Monthly Digest: December 2023

Dec 2023

“Ardently Desire the End of Colonialism”: Teaching Decolonization from 1955 to 1965

Dec 2023

“We Will Fight in Every Way We Can”: Teaching Decolonization from 1945 to 1955

Dec 2023

“Conscious of Myself as a Kenya African”: The Effect of the Second World War on Colonial African Soldiers

Dec 2023

“The Outbreak of the Present War”: Decolonization During and After the Second World War

Dec 2023

“On the Path of Liberation”: Chinese Anticolonialism in the 1920s and 1930s

Dec 2023

“Those Who Suffer Under Colonial Oppression Must Join Hands”: International Anticolonialism in the Interwar Years

Dec 2023

Discussing the Legacy of New Imperialism in the Classroom

Dec 2023

“A Free State with Full Sovereignty”: Amazigh (Berber) Anticolonialism and the Republic of the Rif in Morocco

Dec 2023

“Indirect Ways of Expressing our Patriotism”: Centering Women in Teaching Anticolonialism in the 1920s and 1930s

Nov 2023

Monthly Digest: November 2023

Nov 2023

“Expose the Hollowness of Moral Pretensions”: Gandhi on Non-cooperation and Anticolonialism in 1920

Nov 2023

“The World Will Be Reconstructed”: Four Visions of Anticolonialism in 1920

Nov 2023

The Best History Lesson…. Is the One You Design Yourself

Nov 2023

“All the Women of Cairo Would Have Taken Part”: Huda Sha’arawi and Egyptian Women’s Participation in the 1919 Revolution

Nov 2023

“For the Right of Every People to Govern Themselves”: Challenging Empire in 1919

Nov 2023

“Colonialism in all its Manifestations is an Evil”: Teaching Decolonization, 1914 to Present

Nov 2023

Visualizing the Continuity of Asian Trade Networks in Sixteenth-Century Japanese Nanban Screens

Nov 2023

“Let These Sacred Words Unite Us”: The Haitian Revolution, Creative Expression, and Teaching Analytical Writing

Nov 2023

“Nothing Remained of the Houses”: Indigenous American Resistance to Columbus’ First Settlement in the Americas

Nov 2023

“By Love and Friendship Rather than by Force”: Columbus’ First Description of Indigenous Americans and Student Participation

Oct 2023

Monthly Digest: October 2023

Oct 2023

“The Function of Militarism is to Kill”: Emma Goldman and Questioning the First World War

Oct 2023

“They Know the Peacebreakers but not the Peacemakers”: Teaching Dissent, Pacifism, and Women’s Activism in the First World War

Oct 2023

“To Make Their Escape, and Mutiny”: Enslaved African Resistance During the Middle Passage

Oct 2023

“We Must Not Refuse Them”: Finding African Voices and Stories in the Transatlantic Slave System

Oct 2023

“We the Natives of Togo”: Polite Resistance to Imperialism in German Togoland

Oct 2023

“The Questions Were Asked by the Teachers”: Decolonizing Pedagogy in World History Classrooms

Oct 2023

Rethinking Industrialization and the Nineteenth-Century Global Economy

Oct 2023

“Organizing the Rice Fields”: Teaching Southeast Asia’s Nineteenth-Century Production Revolution

Oct 2023

“Everything Can be Done Peacefully and Without Force”: Queen Njinga and the Portuguese

Oct 2023

“The Increase of Plantations”: Teaching West Africa’s Nineteenth-Century Production Revolution

Oct 2023

“There is One God”: Teaching Sikhism and Syncretism

Oct 2023

Monthly Digest: September 2023

Sep 2023

“The Air is Filled with the Stink of Jute”: Teaching South Asia’s Nineteenth-Century Production Revolution

Sep 2023

“The Means for Promoting Good Order”: Administering the Ottoman Empire

Sep 2023

“To Render Cairo a Second Manchester”: Teaching Egypt’s Nineteenth Century Production Revolution

Sep 2023

“Being Deeply Concerned with Agriculture”: The Spread of Champa Rice, and some surprises

Sep 2023

“Workmen Constantly Employed”: Teaching Mass Production and Industrialization in the Long Nineteenth Century

Sep 2023

Destruction, Creation, and Preservation: Some Thoughts on Teaching the Haitian Revolution

Sep 2023

“Haiti Has Borne the Weight of a Heavy Debt”: Teaching the Long-Term Effects of the Haitian Revolution

Sep 2023

“An Edict of the Khan”: Two Narratives of the Mongols

Sep 2023

“The Way They Did in Saint Domingo”: The Haitian Revolution and the Atlantic World

Sep 2023

“The Plague Increased and Spread Further”: The Spread of the Black Death

Sep 2023

Monthly Digest: August 2023

Sep 2023

“Those Who Refuse Slavery”: Teaching the Short-Term Effects of the Haitian Revolution

Aug 2023

“Cairo Had Become an Abandoned Desert”: The Black Death in Egypt

Aug 2023

“The Sacred Flame of Liberté”: Teaching the Revolution of the Haitian Revolution

Aug 2023

“Revenge Our Wrongs”: Saint-Domingue Before the Haitian Revolution

Aug 2023

“We Have Dared to be Free”: Teaching the Haitian Revolution

Aug 2023

“Sales, Auctions, and Exchanges Go on Constantly”: The Song Chinese Economy

Aug 2023

“Zapata spoke Nahuatl”: Indigenous Mexicans Participating in the Mexican Revolution

Aug 2023

The Last Supper in Cuzco: Indigenizing Christianity in the Andes

Aug 2023

“Fought Against the Army”: Indigenous Americans and Argentina’s “Golden Age” (c.1875 - c.1920)

Jul 2023

Monthly Digest: July 2023

Jul 2023

“Know How to Treat Indians”: Indigenous American Resistance to the British Attempts at Christianization

Jul 2023

“You Glory in Our Old Rags”: Indigenous Americans and the Fur Trade in Northern America, c.1600 - c.1800

Jul 2023

“Indian Parents Defend their Daughter”: Indigenous Resistance in Early Seventeenth Century Peru

Jul 2023

“We Will Follow That Which Our Ancestors Followed”: Indigenous Agency and Navigating the Changes in Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica

Jul 2023

“Peace Was Made with the Carios”: Snapshots from Indigenous American History

Jul 2023

“The Number of Chinese Appears to be Very Considerable”: The Chinese Diaspora in Southeast in the Early Nineteenth Century

Jul 2023

“Filled with Various Races”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Long Nineteenth Century

Jul 2023

“Chinese Came In Droves”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Jul 2023

“Entered Malabar and Built Mosques”: The Spread of Islam in Southern India

Jul 2023

“The Unspun Thread for the Message of Allah”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Jul 2023

“Returning from the Western Ocean”: Giraffes in Ming China

Jul 2023

“Merchants From All Quarters”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network, c.1000 - c.1500

Jun 2023

Voices of the Southern Front: Decolonizing our Teaching of the First World War

Jun 2023

“Foreign Ships from Every Place”: The Indian Ocean as a Network of Exchange, c.1000-c.1900

Jun 2023

“To Fend for Existence in the Poorest Conditions”: Women and Decolonization in 1963

Jun 2023

“Their Voices Must Be Heard”: Women, Intersectionality, and Competing Global Visions in the Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Jun 2023

“Use Their Institutions to Promote Their Own Interests”: Competing Global Visions from 1975 to 1991

May 2023

Monthly Digest: May 2023

May 2023

“Tightly Bound in Spirt”: Vietnamese Anticolonialism in the 1930s

May 2023

“Militant Unity and Solidarity”: Cuba, North Korea, and the Cold War

May 2023

“Korea, like Cuba”: The Cold War Beyond the United States and the Soviet Union

May 2023

“Maintain Friendly Relations with All Countries”: Competing Global Visions from 1945 to 1975

May 2023

Beyond the Good War: Alternative Narratives for Teaching World War II

May 2023

Mauling the British: Tipu Sultan, Mysore, and Resistance to British Imperialism in India

Apr 2023

Monthly Digest: April 2023

Apr 2023

“All People Oppressed by Imperialism around the World”: Competing Global Visions in the Interwar Period, 1919-1939

Apr 2023

Smashing the European Order: Women and the Mexican Revolution

Apr 2023

“Overthrow of the Dictatorial Elements”: The Goals of the Mexican Revolution

Apr 2023

“Fighting Side by Side”: Competing Global Visions and the Great War, 1914-1918

Apr 2023

“An Age of Questioning”: Reimagining the Teaching of the Twentieth Century

Apr 2023

“Live in the Vale of Peace”: Religion and the Mughals During the Reign of Aurangzeb, 1658-1707

Apr 2023

More Thunderbolts: Gunpowder and the Ottoman Empire

Apr 2023

“Thunderbolt of Wrath”: Gunpowder and the Mughal Empire

Apr 2023

“Three Very Bad Aspects”: Europeans and the Mughals During the Reign of Shah Jahan, 1628-1658

Apr 2023

“Complete and Immediate Independence for the Vietnamese People”: Vietnamese Anticolonialism in the 1920s and 1930s

Apr 2023

Monthly Digest: March 2023

Mar 2023

“A Devotee of Dervishes”: The Mughal Empire During the Reign of Jahangir, 1605-1627

Mar 2023

“A Great City”: Akbar and Fatehpur Sikri

Mar 2023

“Marvelously Regular and Geometric Gardens”: Babur and the Founding of the Mughal Empire

Mar 2023

“A Generous Gift from Timur and Akbar”: Snapshots from the Mughal Empire

Mar 2023

“Its Immediate Effects Have Been Simply Disastrous”: Some Thoughts on Teaching New Imperialism

Mar 2023

“We Were Not Free”: American and Japanese Imperialism, c.1860 - c.1940

Mar 2023

“To Fight to the Last”: Historical Imagination and African Resistance to New Imperialism

Mar 2023

“A Period of Hatred and Despair”: Middle East and North Africa in the Era of New Imperialism, c.1830 - c.1940

Feb 2023

Monthly Digest: February 2023

Feb 2023

“Among a Kindred People”: The Pacific Islands in the Era of New Imperialism, c.1840 - c.1930

Feb 2023

“We Begged the White Men to Leave Us Alone”: Teaching Africa in the Era of New Imperialism, c.1880 - c.1840

Feb 2023

“We Thought it Best to Fight”: Teaching British-Ruled Africa in the Era of New Imperialism, c.1880 - c.1930

Feb 2023

“The European Makes Himself Ridiculous”: Teaching Southeast Asia in the Era of New Imperialism, c.1880 - c.1940

Feb 2023

“British boxing versus Indian fisticuffs”: South Asia in the Era of New Imperialism, c.1860 - c.1940

Jan 2023

Monthly Digest: January 2023

Jan 2023

“The Invaders Will Know No Tranquility”: The Transition to New Imperialism, 1840-1880

Jan 2023

“Pilfering Our Resources”: Teaching the Causes of New Imperialism with Primary Sources

Jan 2023

“White Devils All Over Asia”: Teaching New Imperialism, c.1850 - c.1940

Jan 2023

“Excessive Labor and Confinement”: Historical Imagination and the Urban Working Class

Jan 2023

“Making a Great Profit”: Historical Imagination and the Opium Trade

Dec 2022

Monthly Digest: December 2022

Dec 2022

“Men so Heartless”: Historical Imagination and Potosí

Dec 2022

“Ruined and Plundered and Burned”: Historical Imagination, Lascars, and the Portuguese Arrival in the Indian Ocean

Dec 2022

“The Principle of Self-Determination”: Historical Imagination and Indian Home Rule in 1919

Dec 2022

“Seventeen small jugs of soap”: Inviting Historical Imagination into the Classroom

Dec 2022

What the Griot Said: Teaching Medieval West Africa

Dec 2022

“Each is the child of his mother”: Historical Imagination and Gender in Medieval West Africa

Dec 2022

“In Conformity to Mecca”: Islam and Medieval West Africa, c.1000 - c.1600

Nov 2022

Monthly Digest: November 2022

Nov 2022

Mapping Medieval West African States

Nov 2022

“Many Kings and Many Mansas”: Teaching the Politics of the Mali and Songhay Empires, c.1200 - 1591

Nov 2022

“The World Knew Happiness”: West Africa and the Afroeurasian Economy, c.1200 - c.1600

Nov 2022

“Men of the Spoken Word”: Teaching West Africa, c.1200 - c.1600

Nov 2022

A Visual History of the Ottoman Empire

Nov 2022

“We Understand the Railway’s Advantages”: Ottoman Railroads and Modernization in 1900

Nov 2022

“A Right Notion of Life”: The Ottomans in 1700

Nov 2022

“To take lads for the Janissaries”: Making Sense of the Devşirme

Oct 2022

Monthly Digest: October 2022

Oct 2022

An Elephant in Belgrade: The Ottoman Empire as an Afroeurasian Empire in the Sixteenth Century

Oct 2022

“A Great and Important City”: Bursa and the Beginning of the Ottoman Empire

Oct 2022

“Addicted to the Coffeehouse”: Snapshots from the Ottoman Empire

Oct 2022

“A Total Abolition of Slavery”: The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave System

Oct 2022

“At Last I Defended Myself”: 400 Years of Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave System

Sep 2022

Monthly Digest: September 2022

Sep 2022

“Suffering the Most Excruciating Torments”: The Height of the Transatlantic Slave System, 1650-1850

Sep 2022

“We Cannot Reckon How Great the Damage Is”: Origins of the Transatlantic Slave System, c.1450 - c.1650

Sep 2022

From Dublin to Shandong: Slavery and Slaving in Afroeurasia before 1400 C.E.

Sep 2022

“If there were no buyers there would be no sellers”: Teaching the Transatlantic Slave System, c.1450 - c.1850

Sep 2022

A New Narrative for Liberating Narratives

Sep 2021

Stepping Out from Zheng He’s Shadow: World History, Ming China, and Greater East Asia in the Fifteenth Century

Oct 2020

"People Who Have Interrupted Empire": African and Indigenous Resistance in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Feb 2019

Less Scrambling, More Reflecting: How We Can Better Teach about the European Colonization of Africa

Feb 2019

What We Can Learn from a Pair of Skating Owls: Teaching the Little Ice Age and its Importance for Today

Jan 2019

Revolutionary Revolutions: Rethinking how we teach the political revolutions between 1750 and 1900

Jan 2019

Goodbye Paperless History, Hello Liberating Narratives

Jan 2019

A Revolutionary Challenge: The Túpac Amaru Rebellion and Rethinking the Atlantic Revolutions

Nov 2018

Two Views of Global Lisbon

Oct 2018

More than Four Turtles: Global Renaissances in the Fifteenth Century (Part II)

Oct 2018

More than Four Turtles: Global Renaissances in the Fifteenth Century (Part I)

Oct 2018

Don’t Call It a Comeback: Afroeurasian Revivals in the Fifteenth Century

Oct 2018

Decolonizing Modern World History

Mar 2016

Healing the Sick Man of Europe

Mar 2016

A Global Historical Take on American Debates about Free Trade

Feb 2016

Globalizing the Renaissance

Feb 2016

When the End of Growth is not the Beginning of Decline

Jan 2016

Teaching World History in the Age of Black Lives Matter

Jan 2016

Eurocentrism and the Myth of East Asian Isolation

Jan 2016

The Sound of History

Jan 2016

Explanations, Conjunctures, and Teaching about the Islamic State

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