World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

History books teach us that civilization arose with the Neolithic Revolution when hunter-gatherers first settled down because of the discovery of agriculture. Here's a clip from the History Channel about the discovery of Göbekli Tepe. Did civilization arise before religion or did religion arise before civilization?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

How can we understand AI in the broader history of humans and technology? How might AI-enabled tools aid (or challenge) the ways anthropologists and/or the general public investigate and understand the past, e.g., archaeological site discovery, analysis of ancient DNA or skeletal remains, reconstructing past events, or artifact preservation?

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations? Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bite—low on jargon, high on storytelling—or compelling photo essays or multimedia pieces. How do we care for ourselves and others?

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A free online webinar by SAPIENS Editor-in-Chief Chip Colwell to learn about how to write for the magazine and its peer publications. Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings. ✽ My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Teaching American History

MAY 28, 2024

Naturalist John Muir, whose popular magazine articles had done much to bring about the 1890 Congressional act creating Yosemite National Park , was unanimously named president of the new organization. Muir in fact had been pressed into service by Robert Underwood Johnson , associate editor of the influential New York magazine The Century.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Archaeology can offer answers—and potential solutions. As a recent piece in Smithsonian magazine put it, although “the animals appear in a few scattered accounts from settlers in the mid-1800s,” officials “generally agree that Colorado never supported a breeding population.”

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