World History Teachers Blog

MARCH 2, 2025

The database is divided into four themes: Key developments in world history Key development in modern British empire history Anglo-American relations in the 20th century Churchill: Discussion, debate, and controversy I might assign different key questions about World War II to students and have them create a short presentation.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Here is a terrific list of YouTube channels from a history site called History Skills that specializes in different periods of history. One channel that I particularly like specializes in World War 1. Another channel specializes in Islamic empires like the Mughals and the golden age of the Ummayad empire.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The post How We’re Supporting Teachers to Engage in World History Discussions appeared first on Digital Promise.

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World History Teachers Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The Guardian has a terrific interactive site about the global nature of World War I. Ten historians give a brief history of the war through global lenses in a video that takes the viewer through the war. It has interactive maps, original news reports, and videos exploring the war and its effects from many perspectives.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Here are some great StoryMaps from Esri's GIS Systems Their software includes story maps for over a dozen titles in World and US history, including the Age of Exploration, the First Crusade, Ancient Greece, the Black Death, the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Egyptian Funerary Practices, and many more.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 10, 2024

The post Exploring World History: Can a Skill-Based Curriculum Help? appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Vietnam War was a pivotal event in world history. Thankfully, the Vietnam War Lesson and Recent US History Unit are ready to make learning meaningful and planning a breeze! Vietnam to Present US History Test Honestly, making an assessment is tough! Recent US History Unit Planning an entire unit is exhausting.

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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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C3 Teachers

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I have implemented this tool with my students in a high school World History classroom and feel good about the outcomes. I organized my Inquiry Discussion Guide as a checklist for teachers to track the development of their skills more efficiently. For me, it’s about using questions to move students toward argumentation.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

A Social Studies Teacher’s Thoughts Critical Literacy by Colleen Tambuscio Learning about history offers meaningful and authentic opportunities for students to express their knowledge of the subject matter through writing and discourse. Common Core Standards Addressed: WHST.9-10.6; No one needs another report on an artist.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Coincidentally they are all coming out of my History Department. Here is a quick rundown: On Thursday, October 21, I observed Nicolette Perna’s American History 1 class where the lesson focused on the major patriots during the Revolutionary War.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 3, 2013

Students in Mrs. Tambuscio’s World History class culminated a unit on the Holocaust by applying their historical knowledge to the viewing of survivor testimonies. Students were able to utilize IWitness , which is a computer-based program created by the USC Shoah Foundation’s Institute for Visual History.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up. KELLEN ZENG.

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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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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

She is a veteran social studies teacher who has taught Sociology, US History, World History, Anthropology, and Psychology. I would like to thank Catlin for creating the materials to help me survive and thrive as a blended teacher and for the opportunity to share my experiences with you.

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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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Future of History

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Teaching about Judaism, Christianity and Islam needs to be a staple in middle school world history and culture classes. On the anniversary of October 7, Lauren Brown points out misconceptions and offers resource ideas to help counter students' frequent confusion.

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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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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I wish the book dove a little deeper into the history of the Korean peninsula. I would not choose this title to read in my World History class, however, if the purpose of Ethnic Studies is to help students “see” themselves in the curriculum; this book delivers.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Perna’s US History I course worked on developing a colonial road trip project this month. Students were to develop a trip that someone could take today to explore colonial history through one of the three colonial regions. Students enjoyed the project and made colonial history come alive!

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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

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

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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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I thought it would be too slow and boring for my 10th-grade World History students. I remember skimming it in Barnes and Noble and putting it down because it starts off with a romantic triangle between Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus in a New York City hotel suite in 1942. I was wrong. The book has a slow burn.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2022

I took my first Advanced Placement course nearly four years ago in my freshman year of high school: AP World History. Throughout the year, I gained insight into thousands of years of human history, spanning from around 10,000 B.C.E. This year, I am taking AP Art History. to 2000 C.E.

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Geography Education

MAY 14, 2024

SOURCE: ESRI ESRI has produced GeoInquires for many diverse subjects , from American Literature to World History. Collections of 15–20 activities per topic enhance your curriculum throughout the year.” You don’t need mapping expertise to use these lessons–check them out!

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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

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

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

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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

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