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.
“Strengthening the Economic and Social Stability of the Region”: Teaching Regional Trade Agreements and Southeast Asia
Discussion of teaching regional trade agreements

“The Green Revolution Has Been a Team Effort”: Globalizing How We Teach the Green Revolution
Discussion of how to integrate Asian voices when teaching the Green Revolution

“A Localized, Global Network of Resistance”: Teaching Resistance to Economic Globalization
Teaching resistance to globalization using the 1999 Seattle WTO protests

“Improves the Conditions of the Colonies”: The First Zionist Settlements in Ottoman Palestine
A discussion of using the first Zionist settlements in Ottoman Palestine to teach colonialism

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

“The Breath of Soviet Russia”: Teaching Soviet Industrialization and Collectivization
Discussion of images to teach Soviet industrialization

“Nobody Expected Seasickness”: Oceanic Migration in the Nineteenth Century
Discussion of a primary source describing the experience of transatlantic migration in the late nineteenth century.

“A World Shaped by Enlightenment Ideas of Race and White Supremacy”: Rethinking How We Teach the Enlightenment
Discussion of how to teach the racism of the Enlightenment

“The Disease Brought Great Desolation”: An Indigenous Account of the Great Dying
Teaching the Great Dying from an Indigenous American perspective

“Desist from Deporting the Jews”: Jews and the Ottoman Empire in the Late Sixteenth Century
Discussion of teaching how Ottoman policy regarding Sephardic Jews changed in the sixteenth century
