Cecil Rhodes Discovers Diamonds: Clip from Queen Victoria's Empire Teaching Imperialism? Here, Cecil Rhodes discovers a diamond mine in South Africa that will eventually become De Beers, the world's largest ...

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Russian Revolution: Primary Sources/ Activities Studying the Russian Revolution. The Digital History Reader has some great primary resources, including posters, music, and text docume...

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Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution Here is a s hort hyperdoc  on the social effects of the Industriaal Revolution using resouces from a terrific website developed by the Ohio ...

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Ancient Rome: Videos, Lectures & Seminars Studying ancient Rome? Here's a great YouTube playlist from the American Institute for Roman Culture that offers videos for every aspect o...

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The Haitian Revolution: Was it the Most Significant Was the Haitian Revolution with its assertion of human rights the defining event of the revolutions period in the 18th and 19th centuries?...

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Trump’s War on Carolina Carnations

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Trans-Pacific Silver Trade: Four Great Resources 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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The Changing Role of Women Throughout History: Great Documentary How did the role of women change over time? That's the question that historian Amanda Forman tries to answer in this terrific documentary ...

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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