Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Russian Revolution: Primary Sources/ Activities

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Studying the Russian Revolution. The Digital History Reader has some great primary resources, including posters, music, and text docume...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution

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Here is a short hyperdoc  on the social effects of the Industriaal Revolution using resouces from a terrific website developed by the Ohio S...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Ancient Rome: Videos, Lectures & Seminars

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 Studying ancient Rome? Here's a great YouTube playlist from the American Institute for Roman Culture that offers videos for every aspe...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The Haitian Revolution: Was it the Most Significant?

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Was the Haitian Revolution with its assertion of human rights the defining event of the revolutions period in the 18th and 19th centuries?...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Mita & Encomienda Labor Systems: Excellent Recorded Lecture

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Here is an excellent recorded lecture on the mita system from another teacher. It runs about 30 minutes and offers a great overview. I learn...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Trans-Pacific Silver Trade: Four Great Resources

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  Studying the silver trade between 1450 and 1750. Here are four terrific resources. Three podcasts about silver and an awesome multimedia s...
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Saturday, October 11, 2025

The Changing Role of Women Throughout History: Great Documentary

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How did the role of women change over time? That's the question that historian Amanda Forman tries to answer in this terrific document...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Hindu India: Terrific Short Documentary

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Teaching Hinduism?   The Himalayan Academy , which publishes Hinduism Today magazin e, has a terrific 23 minute documentary about the o...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Rome Reborn: Narrated by Khan Academy

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Many of you may have seen Bernard Fischer's 3-D model of Rome showing a simulation of the city's urban development. It's pretty ...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Hanseatic League: Two Good Video Clips

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While it did not rival either the Indian Ocean or Silk Road trade, the Hanseatic League knit together northern Europe and the Baltics into a...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

How Dark were The Dark Ages?

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The Dark Ages were not so dark, according to this fascinating clip from PragerU. They were full of color with carnivals, and revived popul...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

European Sailors and Navigational Tools in the Age of Encounter and Exchange

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Studying European sailors in the 1500's? Here are two good resources, both of which might work for short web quests. Here is a link to ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Buddhism Along the Silk Road: Hyperdoc

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Here is a Hypedoc (Webquest) about the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road between the 2nd and 12th centuries. It's based on a ...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Greece and Rome: Two Excellent Overviews

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Here are two terrific video reviews of Greece and Rome.  The Greece review runs 18 minutes and the Rome review runs just over 20 minutes...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Mugals- Art & Tolerance

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In this review of Mughal art, William Dalrymple offers a terrific portrait of the Mughal emperors -- Akbar, Humayun, Jahangir, and Shah...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Sunni/Shia Divide- Resources

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Here are some excellent resources for reviewing the Sunni/ Shia split. I paraticularly like the clip from the Council of Foreign Relations w...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Comics Ideal for World and US History

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Here is one of several great comics ideal for World History and U.S History. They were developed by the NYCDOE Department of Social Studies ...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Using Google Gemini to Create Assignments

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If you have never used AI to create an assignment, you should give it a try. I teach World History, both AP World and general World History ...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Alexander the Not So Great: Through Persian Eyes

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He destroyed the great capital of Persepolis and the temples and emblems of the ancient Zoroastrian religion. So, unlike Westerners who t...
Monday, June 16, 2025

A History of the World, I Guess: Bill Wurtz's CLEAN Version

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Here's an engaging history of the world (this is the clean, school version--yes, there's a not-so-clean version). It was made by B...