A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

They spoke of the History teacher who was having them blog to reflect critically on world history content where they could interact with each other and share their thoughts.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

The second resource is a podcast that reviews the participation of African colonial troops in the war and comes from historian Michelle Moyd, Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Here is a chart that shows the number of Chinese workers imported by France, Britain, and Russia.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Two historians, Mike Duncan, a revolutionary history podcaster, and David A. Bell, a history professor at Princeton, took Noonan to task on Twitter for not knowing her history. Both historians suggest that the revolution, while horrifically violent, made significant contributions to the world.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

You can find a great list of web tools on Catlin’s blog. She is a veteran social studies teacher who has taught Sociology, US History, World History, Anthropology, and Psychology. She began writing a blog called “A Blended Learning Journey” to share her experiences implementing blended learning.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Professor Rostow explains that she is a social historian and looks at history from below. They had to travel to mines in Africa or East Asia, which was no easy feat in 1321. The second half of the video clip is fascinating. She also questions the term medieval. Are we forgetting," she says, "that the bloodiest century was the 20th century?"

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World History Teachers Blog

MARCH 8, 2025

Here is a Cold War Stations activity that I use with my AP World students when we cover the Cold War. One of my colleagues developed it years ago. It includes seven stations, each with cartoons, documents, or photographs for students to process. I printed it out for seven different stations, but students could also work on it online.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Here is one of my favorite clips to show students when discussing revolutions. Max Fisher explains the origins of national identity in this excellent five-minute clip for the New York Times. He notes that the idea of a national identity is relatively new. Just before the French Revolution, for example, France was not really a nation.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

The history department at OSU (Ohio State University) tweeted this excellent 10-minute clip about Magellan's voyage and its importance to Spain and to world history. The voyage led to the beginning of global trade and generated new scientific knowledge about global time and the earth's circumference.

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World History Teachers Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Atlantic Magazine published 45 black and white stunning black-and-white photographs of the interwar period around the world.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Scholar Rana Mitter describes the rebellion for Facing History. He notes that it was probably the single most bloody civil war in history and perhaps one of the most bizarre because it involved a figure who claimed to the younger brother of Jesus Christ. Why was the Taiping Rebellion a turning point in Chinese Civilization?

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 17, 2022

The second clip comes from the World History Encyclopedia. It includes some of the entries in the Book of the Dead and asks students to create categories for the entries. One of the clips comes from TedEd.

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World History Teachers Blog

MAY 30, 2022

They include Twitter threads about Islamic calligraphy, Islamic gardens, unique mosques in Africa, the dome interiors of mosques around the world, the use of geometric patterns in Islamic art, and Islamic scientists who study the cosmos. These threads, which I have saved as pdfs could work well in a unit on Islam in World History.

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World History Teachers Blog

JULY 30, 2022

The essay is an ideal assignment for world history students studying the unit on revolutions in the 1700 and 1800s.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Their software includes story maps for over a dozen titles in World History, including the Age of Exploration, the First Crusade, Ancient Greece, and its geography, the Black Death, the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Egyptian Funerary Practices, and many more.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 21, 2024

Here is an excellent essay by the historian, Peter Frankopan, for AEON Magazine about the significance of silk from its accidental development in China to its use as a "symbol of extravagance and decadence" in Afro-Eurasia. It's a great story and the excerpts are for great for the classroom.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

One of my favorite sites for teaching medieval cities like Mali, Calicut, and Quanzhou is called Sites of Encounter in the Medieval World. It comes from The University of California at Davis and includes lessons with primary sources, maps, charts, and graphs.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

It starts with the Revolution of 1905 and continues through Russia's withdrawal from World War 1. In addition, here's a great website about the Russian Revolution, called 1917, Free History , from Yandex Publishing. It comes from Lucas Films and is better than most I've seen over the years.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

Another historian, Sir Richard J Evans -Regius professor of history, University of Cambridge, argues that Serbia was most responsible. And a number of historians like John Rohl - emeritus professor of history, University of Sussexe, put the blame on Austria Hungary and Germany.

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World History Teachers Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

World War I was also fought in Africa. Michelle Moyd, Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington, discusses in a podcast the participation of African colonial troops in the war and answers these questions: "What motivated Africans to fight in the armies of their colonial power?

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Here is a terrific site that features biographical stories of specific slaves, slave owners, and traders. It comes from the same people who created the "Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network." You can read dozens of short sketches about specific slaves like Felisberta who was born in 1820 in Central West Africa.

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World History Teachers Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Here's a great six minute review of the MAIN causes of WWI from "Made from History."

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World History Teachers Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

Studying decolonization? Here are two terrific short (25 to 30 minutes) documentaries about two independence movements in Africa--in Ghana and Kenya. Both are from CCTV News, a 24-hour English news channel, of China Central Television, based in Beijing. You can find questions for both videos in the New Visions Global Curriculum for 10th grade.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Should we throw out everything we’ve learned about the Silk Roads? The writer William Dalrymple thinks that we should in this fascinating essay for the Guardian titled "T he Silk Road still casts a spell, but was the ancient trading route just a Western invention? "

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Digital Promise

MARCH 18, 2021

From a female perspective on migration, to the aftermath of the effects of climate change on the island of Mauritius, to the effects of constant connectivity on mental health, this new selection of MY World 360 ° immersive experiences takes viewers on a journey across the many sides of a turning point in world history.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Bantu Migrations: Resources Here are three good clips about the early Bantu migrations, and a terrific site about iron in Africa. One video clip comes from Masaman, who produces educational videos on his YouTube channel.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2024

It's from Crash Course Geography so it may not be noticed by those of us who teach history. Here's an excellent overview of how different religions spread along the Silk Road.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 27, 2022

Click on the history volume and you can learn the history of empire from Ghana to the Sultanate of Massina. I especially like this section, called "Surprising Things you can read in the Manuscripts" which reviews how the manuscripts were first threatened and some of the material they cover.

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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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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Teaching Reconstruction in US History? Here is a fascinating overview from the viewpoints of the many freed slaves who experienced it. Kidada Williams begins her book, "I Saw Death Coming" by reviewing developments immediately after the Civil War.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

You can read more about this expedition and the looting here and at Jstor here and at History Extra here. The British force that killed the Tibetian soldiers and looted several monasteries was known as the Younghusband Expedition.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Professor Rostow explains that she is a social historian and looks at history from below. They had to travel to mines in Africa or East Asia, which was no easy feat in 1321. The second half of the video clip is fascinating. She also questions the term medieval. Are we forgetting," she says, "that the bloodiest century was the 20th century?"

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Here is an excellent 14-minute clip about the Meiji Revolution from the Pacific Century, the 1992 PBS 10-part documentary about the rise of the Pacific Rim. Part two, from which the attached clip comes, is about the Meiji Revolution. It is dated but still does a good job. It begins in 1868 when Mutsuhito became the Meiji Emperor.

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World History Teachers Blog

MARCH 19, 2025

Here are two video clips about Japanese imperialism during the interwar period. The first reviews the Manchurian crisis and the failure of the League of Nations while the second, from CCTV News, speaks to eyewitnesses about the Nanking Massacre.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Here are two clips about the Opium Wars. One is from CNN Millenium , which I often show my students and the other is from Micheal Wood in The Story of China. Both are short, about 8 to 10 minutes. In the CNN Millenim video, the Opium War starts at 28.49 and runs to 36.50. The clip from The Story of China is eight minutes long.

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Rosie the History Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2019

My 9th grade US History class is finishing up the World War I unit and they have learned so much! I focus on the US involvement in the war and students will learn about global perspectives in their World History class in 10th grade. Get it here.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 9, 2023

It’s generating blog posts (not this one–sorry, I like to write), jingles, and images. Here are sample commands: Command: DOK Level 1 Explanation + Generate 3 DOK Level 1 Multiple Choice Questions appropriate for sophomore World History students studying Classical Greece. AI is everywhere. Constantly.

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4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

Most of us who work in schools are motivated at least in part by a desire to make the world better, and it’s nice to know that our work actually makes a difference in what young people know and can do. And many elementary schools have basically not been teaching history for some time now. But that’s a different blog post.

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