World History Teachers Blog

MARCH 2, 2025

Here is a cool new online archive of 20th-century resources surrounding Winston Churchill. The archive includes primary sources such as images, cartoons, and documents. One of the most interesting parts of the archives is the investigations of significant issues designed for high school students.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Gather 2 documents which demonstrate the systematic nature of the Nazi strategy that marginalized this group of people. Gather 4 archival photographs to provide documented proof of the specific abuse towards the victim group.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher. The books are archived here. Some were more successful than others.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. For eleven years, while serving as Dean of Students at Bishop Seabury, she taught world history.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. The next day, we dove into the document analysis activity compiled by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. They could not believe they were looking at the actual documents which we had learned so much about.

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