Saturday, November 23, 2024

New Ways to Teach about Revolutions

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Here is a fantastic resource for your revolutions unit called " Age of Revolutions ." It is an open-access academic journal with e...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade: Lesson Ideas

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Here is  a terrific site that features biographical stories  of specific slaves, slave owners, and traders. It comes from the same people wh...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Cairo in 1321: Coptic Christians and Mamluk Muslims

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   What was life like in Cairo in 1321?   Coptic Christians and Mamluk Muslims did not get along.  In fact, in 1321 violence broke out and s...

Bantu Migrations: Resources

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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...
Friday, June 28, 2024

AI: Another Big Adjustment for Educators

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Edsurge just published a new story by Jeffery R. Young  about new features of AI that will require educators to make even more adjustments. ...
Friday, June 14, 2024

How Did Religion Spread Along the Silk Roads

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Here's an excellent overview of how different religions spread along the Silk Road. It's from Crash Course Geography so it may not b...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

A Silken Web: How Weaving has Shaped Human History

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 Here is an excellent essay by the historian, Peter Frankopan, for AEON Magazine about the significance of silk from its accidental developm...

The Middle East’s Growing Conflicts in Six Maps

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  Here is an excellent overview of the conflict in the Middle East in six maps from the Wall Street Journal. Each of the six maps has a sho...
Friday, December 22, 2023

Awesome YouTube Channels for World History

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Here is a terrific list of YouTube channels  from a history site called History Skills that specializes in different periods of history.  ...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Generate Leveled Resources with this AI App: Diffit

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Have you tried the new AI app called Diffit . I love it—you can take primary sources that you find on the internet, paste in the URL and the...
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Sunday, January 1, 2023

Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution

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 Here is  a website with terrific resources  for the social effects of the industrial revolution. Ohio State University developed the websit...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Using GIS Story Maps in the Classroom

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Esri's GIS Systems has developed a  terrific spatial technology for the classroom.  Their software includes story maps for over a dozen ...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

The First 20th Century Genocide

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Almost 50 years before the Jewish Holocaust in World War II, another holocaust, equally tragic and devastating, took place in Nambia in the...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

Becoming Human- Lucy, Ardi and Ida

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Studying the early development of humans?   National Geographic  has a great interactive website  with short stories about Lucy, Ida, and ac...
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Timbuktu Manuscripts: Really Cool Google Arts and Culture Site

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Here is a really cool interactive Google Arts and Culture site all about the Timbuktu Manuscripts. Once you open the site, click "lear...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Egyptian Book of the Dead: Two Excellent Clips

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Here are two excellent clips about the Egyptian Book of the Dead,  a book written mostly in hieroglyphics with vignettes and stories about t...
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Monday, August 15, 2022

New Podcast: British Imperialism in India and More

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William Dalrymple, the author of numerous books about India, including " T he Anararchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, an...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Hiroshima: OSU Video and Essay

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Here is an excellent review of the events that led to the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the Ohio State University (OSU). Yo...
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Friday, August 5, 2022

Silk Road Acitivities

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Here are some excellent resources for teaching the Silk Roads , especially to younger students. They come from Professor Peter Frankopan an...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

Civilization or Religion: Which Came First

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Did civilization arise before religion or did religion arise before civilization? History books teach us that civilization arose with the Ne...