“Feudalism” means different things to medievalists, teachers, historical actors, and state standards. What is a teacher to do?
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Teaching “Feudalism”
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A lot longer than we anticipated
Pete Seeger was nearly 80 years old when I saw him perform with Arlo Guthrie in St. Paul, Minnesota. He seemed to take a nap on the stage while Guthrie was playing, an approach to life that may have helped him to live another fifteen years. It was 1988, a year and a half before […]
Students can develop understandings of contingency in the process of Latin American independence by working through groups of events in specific regions.
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Americanos
Teaching Latin American Independence. I’ve been thinking about an evergreen topic among World History teachers: bringing more Latina American content into our classes.
Students read an excerpt from the book which is entry point to considering how Landers constructed historical knowledge from advertisements for runaway slaves and to learning about how some enslaved people sought freedom
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Vast Anti-Imperial Conspiracy
Reading Underground Asia broadened, deepened, and challenged my understanding of revolution and anti-imperialism in the first three decades of the twentieth century.