Sunday, March 30, 2025

Decolonization in Ghana & Kenya: Two Short Documentaries

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Studying decolonization?  Here are two terrific short (25 to 30 minutes) documentaries about two independence movements in Africa--in G...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Manchurian Crisis & Rape of Nanking

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Here are two video clips about Japanese imperialism during the interwar period. The first reviews the Manchurian crisis and the failur...
Saturday, March 8, 2025

Cold War Stations Activity

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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 develope...
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Online Archive for WWII

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Here is a cool new online archive of 20th-century resources surrounding Winston Churchill. The archive includes primary sources such as...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

A Global Guide to WWI

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The Guardian has a terrific interactive site about the global nature of World War I.  It has interactive maps, original news reports, and v...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

The 4 Main Causes of WWI- Six Minute Overview

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Here's a great six minute review of the MAIN causes of WWI from "Made from History."  
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Using Images to Understand the Interwar Period

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Atlantic Magazine published 45 black and white stunning black-and-white photographs of the interwar period around the world. Among the 45...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

World War I: China & Africa Participate

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Show your students the extent to which World War 1 was global with this excellent  Twitter thread  from Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Director of t...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Ten Historians: 10 Different Interpretations on Who Started WWI

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Ten historians give 10 different interpretations on who started WWI in this BBC story. Sir Max Hastings - military historian, argues th...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Opium Wars: CNN Millenium & The Story of China

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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 T...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

MIT's Visualizing Cultures: Opening Japan, Opium War

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This MIT site " Visualizing Cultures ," is a great resource for World History and AP World when studying imperialism.  The site ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Meiji Revolution: Excellent Clip from the Pacific Century

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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 ...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Storymaps: WWI, Black Plague, Ancient Greece

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Here are some great StoryMaps from Esri's GIS Systems Their software includes story maps for over a dozen titles in World and US histor...
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Thursday, January 2, 2025

Russian Revolution: Short Documentary

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Here is a good 33-minute documentary about the Russian Revolution.  It starts with the Revolution of 1905 and continues through Russia'...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Did Reconstruction Have Elements of Genocide? " I Saw Death Coming"

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Teaching Reconstruction in US History?  Here is a fascinating overview from the viewpoints of the many freed slaves who experienced it. Kida...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Global Pandemics: The Plague of Athens

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Studying Greece? Here's a great interactive website about the Plague of Athens that provides context for Covid 19. And here is a hyperd...
Sunday, December 8, 2024

The Haitian Revolution: Understanding Liberte and Equality

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Here are some excellent ideas for teaching the Haitian Revolution from Professor Julia Gaffield, author of Haitian Connections in the Atlant...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Were all slaves illiterate? Not necessarily

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Here's an interesting story from the PBS NewsHour about a Muslim slave from West Africa who was kidnapped and brought to Ameria in ...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Nationalism Explained

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Here is one of my favorite clips to show students when discussing revolutions. Max Fisher explains the origins of national identity in thi...
Monday, December 2, 2024

TheTaiping Rebellion: The Bloodiest Civil War in History (video clip)

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Why was the Taiping Rebellion a turning point in Chinese Civilization? Scholar Rana Mitter describes the rebellion for Facing History. He ...