Middle East
“Frequently Invaded Iran”: Relations between the Ottoman and Safavid Empires
Discussion of teaching the Ottomans & Safavids in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
“The Tax Officials are to Pay Installments”: Ottoman Tax Farming in the Fifteenth Century
Discussion of teaching tax farming
“The Severe Cold in Syria”: The Little Ice Age and the Black Death in the Middle East
Discussion of teaching the intersection of the Little Ice Age and the Black Death in the Middle East
“The Earth Was Covered in Snow”: China and the Middle East in the Seventeenth Century
Discussion of teaching the Little Ice Age in the Chinese and Ottoman Empires
Visualizing the Spread of Chess
Discussion of visual primary sources showing the spread of chess
Abu Zayd and Turks in Dar al-Islam
Discussion of using paintings to teach about the spread of Turks in Dar al-Islam
“People of All Tongues”: Teaching the Continuity of Religious Diversity in Dar al-Islam
Discussion of teaching the continutity of religious diversity in Dar al-Islam
“Escape the Prison of Our Narrative”: Teaching Israeli and Palestinian Nonviolence
Discussion of Palestinians and Israelis who have supported nonviolence in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
“Singing Two Different Lullabies at the Same Time”: Using Political Cartoons to Teach British Palestine, 1936-1948
Discussion of Palestinian and Jewish political cartoons from the 1930s and 1940s
“A Kind of Mutual Understanding Prevailed”: Competing Visions of Mandatory Palestine’s Future, 1920-1936
Discussion of teaching Israeli and Palestinian shared history between 1920 and 1936
