Hindu India: Terrific Short Documentary Teaching Hinduism?   The Himalayan Academy , which publishes Hinduism Today magazin e, has a terrific 23 minute documentary about the o...

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Rome Reborn: Narrated by Khan Academy 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 cool as is! ...

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Hanseatic League: Two Good Video Clips 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...

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

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European Sailors and Navigational Tools in the Age of Encounter and Exchange Studying European sailors in the 1500's? Here are two good resources, both of which might work for short web quests. One includes the Mari...

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Two Great Documentaries: Temple Empire of Angkor Wat and the Spice Empire of Majapahit Here are two great videos that work well for Unit 1 in AP World History.  Both come from Peter Lee in a series for CNA Insider, called "Mark...

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Wow! That is a beutiful building!

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Who made these knotted records during the Inca Empire? Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these cords suggests this record-keeping was practiced by commoners as well as elites.

Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these cords suggests this record-keeping was practiced by commoners as well as elites.

Buddhism Along the Silk Road: Hyperdoc 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 terr...

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Greece and Rome: Two Excellent Overviews 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...

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Mugals- Art & Tolerance In this review of Mughal art, William Dalrymple offers a terrific portrait of the Mughal emperors -- Akbar, Humayun, Jahangir, and Shah...

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Sunni/Shia Divide- Resources Here are some excellent resources for reviewing the Sunni/ Shia split. I paraticularly like the clip from the Council of Foreign Relations w...

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Check out this thread--- bsky.app/profile/tj-s...

I write serious history—via biography—for a non-academic audience. So I'd like to say something about Ken Burns's remark, something that also explains why AI can't write history.

Pardon me for citing the example of one of my books, "Custer's Trials," on one of history's best-known figures.
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Glad to do it. The comics are great and I can't wait to use them in the fall.

Comics Ideal for World and US Hisotry 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 ...

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Thank- I'll start to work on the post this week.

Do you mind if I put the link the World History blog?

Just downlaoded them-- I will definitely use them in our revolutions unit.

Wow, thanks so much

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Thanks for posting

Using Google Gemini to Create Assignments 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 ...

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Chiswell’s Lead Mines in the American Revolution - Encyclopedia Virginia Origins Chiswell discovered lead deposits on Cherokee land near the west of the sometime in the 1750s. After William Byrd III, who served as a colonel with British forces during the , constructed F...

My entry for Encyclopedia Virginia, focusing on how the U.S. war effort depended on enslaved miners during the Amrrican Revolution, and how patriots used public labor to *terrorize* Black Virginians, is published.
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Alexander the Not So Great: Through Persian Eyes He destroyed the great capital of Persepolis and the temples and emblems of the ancient Zoroastrian religion. So, unlike Westerners who t...

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I've seen that and it is very good

Why do Iran & the U.S. Hate Each Other? Students cannot understand the current crisis between the United States and Iran without understanding the history that brought the two coun...

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Saw this quote in Manisha Sinha's excellent book- The Slave's Cause"

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

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