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Introduction As European imperialism spread around the globe, following Iberian journeys to the Americas and Asia in the 1490s, occupants of these newly accessible lands encountered Christian missionaries in growing numbers. Christianity already existed in some of these places, while elsewhere people heard the Gospel for the first time. In read more »

Abstract: Educators’ content background and use of accurate, age-appropriate teaching materials generates quality teaching.  Content in every grade level should supplement content from previous grades in a spiraled format.  State test results on students’ math and reading indicate, but do not prove, the presence of these two presumptions.  Because history read more »

Abstract: Courses on colonial North America are world history courses.  This article discusses some of the parameters used in developing and teaching this course and the ways world history narratives continue to fall short when it comes to this era of history. Key Words: Teaching, colonial North America   One read more »

Students of British imperial history will, no doubt, be familiar with the notion of the “New Imperial History,” an historiographic tradition that argues for the synergy between Britain’s domestic and imperial histories.  As Kathleen Wilson suggests in the introduction to her edited volume A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity, and read more »

Abstract: While extensive scholarship, popular novels, and films have been devoted to the conflict in Vietnam, by comparison, significantly fewer works have focused on the connections between literary and intellectual movements in Vietnam and the United States in combination with their relevance to contemporary policy. Through an examination of primary read more »

We know that teaching teachers is a tough challenge- we are a tough crowd!  But we also know that teachers are life-long learners, so they also must play the role of student regularly.  AP (Advanced Placement) Institutes takes experienced secondary teachers and prepares them to teach college level courses, write read more »

Today the terms world, global, and transnational appear ubiquitously across historical and social science literature. In a brief survey, one can find a course in world history covering “everything” from 1500 to the present, a global history of migration, a transnational history of 1968 protests or a globalized look at read more »

In the twenty-three centuries since his death, Alexander of Macedon has come to hold a prominent place in the Western canon, symbolizing for some the military hero personified while others view his legacy as a tragic tale of greatness lost amidst self-indulgence and megalomania.  In more recent decades, world historians read more »

In most colleges and universities, a World History survey course is an essential part of the liberal arts curriculum.  It is the belief by many colleges and universities that a student taking one or two world history courses (as well as other parts of a core curriculum) would be challenged read more »

Abstract This article looks at the World History portion of the recently adopted Texas state standards by noting some of the positive aspects, the discussion of certain content not found in other states, and the negative aspects, how implementation could portray an overly Eurocentric view.  This discussion is framed with read more »

This short piece provides a way of thinking about the Enlightenment’s legacy and the strength of modern propaganda in order to enable world history teachers to use these themes in their classes, both for teaching history and for helping students to reflect on their own lives. The authors provide background read more »

Teaching the Emergence of the Islamic World through Art and Architecture: A Lesson in Cross-Cultural Exchange [Figure 1] Frequently in the world history classroom we teach the emergence of the Islamic World and the expanding dar al-Islam via dramatic maps and dates of the “Arab Conquest.”   [Figure 2] Yet such read more »

Teaching the Middle East: A Resource for Educators is a new Web site created by three University of Chicago partners: the Oriental Institute, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the eCUIP Digital Library Project. The goal of Teaching the Middle East: A Resource for Educators is to provide teachers read more »

Is there no one left to defend public education?   The attacks grow more ferocious, as the blood is in the political water, so to speak.  Who will defend the purveyor of nascent democratic ideals, the socializing force of the rough American prairie frontiers, the facilitator of public, open-minded controversial discussion, read more »

As a recent graduate of Metropolitan State University, Minnesota, I look back over my years as a history major and see a missed opportunity by several history departments (I have attended four colleges and universities) to foster better race relations between white students and black, and the teachers of world read more »

Can web 2.0 tools enhance students’ understanding of historical concepts? Do digital natives really want more technology in the classroom? This article covers a world history research project, including the learning goals, free digital tools used, student responses, and lessons learned for the next version of the assignment.   The read more »

[Edited by the author] No employee of the public school systems in the U.S. can escape the hovering shadow of the "No Child Left Behind" legislation, the updated "Race to the Top" competition and the limited educational reform funds of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, while struggling with increasingly read more »