Short Post
Weekly posts (published on Monday or Tuesday) highlighting a primary source (either textual or visual) that aligns with the AP Modern World History Curriculum.
“Foreign Customs are Now Generally Understood Throughout Japan”: Foreign Influence on Japanese Reform in the Nineteenth Century
Discussion of how the Japanese understood foreign influences
“Successfully Compete with the British”: Contemporary Accounts of Muhammad Ali’s Industrial Experiment
Discussion of teaching Egypt as an example of state-sponsored industrialization
Steamships and the Hajj
Discussion of teaching the effects of steamships on Islam
“Steel is the Mother of Industry”: Teaching the Second Industrial Revolution in Japan
Discussion of the Second Industrial Revolution in Japan
“An Explosion Took Place”: Teaching the Consequences of Coal Mining
Discussion of using primary sources to teach the effects of nineteenth-century coal mining.
“The Lesson to be Drawn for Japan”: The Origins of Japanese Industrialization
Discussion of teaching the origins of Japanese industrialization
“The Parsis Built all these Ships without any Assistance from the English”: Indian Shipbuilding in the 1800s
Discussion of the expansion of shipbuilding in nineteenth-century Bombay
“Great Number of Hands Congregated Together”: Teaching the Origins of the Factory System
Discussion of using primary sources to teach the consequences of the factory system
“Despierta, borinqueño”: Teaching Early Puerto Rican Nationalism
Teaching Puerto Rican nationalism
“The Example of the United States”: Simon Bolivar’s Mixed Feelings
Discussion of Simón Bolivar’s views of the United States
