Weekly Post
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“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
“We Are All Poor Nowadays”: From Ottoman Palestine to British Mandatory Palestine, 1914-1920
Discussion of teaching the experiences of Palestinians and Israelis during the First World War
“Study and Understand the Psyche of Our Neighbors”: Palestinian and Zionist Exchanges, 1899-1914
Discussion of teaching Palestinian and Zionist encounters at the beginning of the twentieth century
“Palestine Is Our Ever-Memorable Historic Home”: The Development of Zionism and the First Zionists in Ottoman Palestine
Discussion of teaching the origins of Zionism
“The Young Man Loved Jaffa”: Ottoman Palestine in the Late Nineteenth Century
Discussion of teaching late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine
“When Any of You Intend to Divorce”: Teaching Continuity and Divorce in the Medieval Islamic Middle East, c.600 - c.1600
A discussion of teaching continutiy using examples of divorce in the Islamic Middle East
“A Rich South and a Poor North”: Southernization and Facilitating Student-Centered Discussions
Discussion of how to facilitate student-centered discussions using Southernization
“Hopelessness at Home, A Secure Future Overseas”: Teaching Jewish Migration in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Discussion of teaching nineteenth and twentieth century Jewish migration in a world historical context.
“We Should All Wear the Fez”: Ottoman Jews in the Late Nineteenth Century
Istanbul has long been one of my favorite cities. Whenever I go there, I explore a new neighborhood or visit a new site. Every trip to Istanbul leads to some new insight or anecdote relevant to teaching world history. My last visit was no different. In the summer of 2022,
