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“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.
Beyond the Good War: Alternative Narratives for Teaching World War II
A discussion of how to teach World War II in world history courses by focusing on resources and extreme violence.
Mauling the British: Tipu Sultan, Mysore, and Resistance to British Imperialism in India
A visual primary source showing how Mysore resisted British imperialism in southern India in the second half of the eighteenth century
Monthly Digest: April 2023
Monthly Digest for April 2023
“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.
Smashing the European Order: Women and the Mexican Revolution
A visual primary source to show how states around the world challenged the existing political and economic order at the start of the twentieth century.
“Overthrow of the Dictatorial Elements”: The Goals of the Mexican Revolution
An example of how states around the world challenged the existing political and economic order at the start of the twentieth century.
“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.
“An Age of Questioning”: Reimagining the Teaching of the Twentieth Century
A discussion of how we can teach twentieth century world history and center the voices of women and African, Asian, Indigenous, and Latinx voices.
“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.
