World Teach

Studying Japan? Here's are two great short clips on the Samurai and the Code of Bushido. One is from the History Channel and the second comes from Simple History.

Here are three terrific clips about the British  Empie and India. The first comes from BBC TWO and runs only four minutes. The second comes from the Armchair Historian and runs about eight minutes It explains how the British East India Company conquered India. The third clip is a 28-minute documentary from BBC TWO and explains how the British ruled India.

Teaching about the crisis in Venezuela.  Here are some resources that explain the origins of the crisis and what's going on now. The stories below explain the origins of the crisis. The essays from Origins and Al Jazeera are particularly good and include charts and graphs. ABC News has a good story with which includes a video clip. Al Jazeera has a great essay about the origins of the crisis called Venezuela's crisis explained from the beginning The Council for Foreign Relations has a story called Venezuela: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate  Origins from Ohio State University has a terrific essay called The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State Foreign Policy has an interesting story called  How Venezuela Struck it Poor Vox also has a story about the beginning of the crisis called How Venezuela went from a rich democracy to a dictatorship on the brink of collapse The Guardian explains the origins of the crisis in this story called, Venezuela on the brink: a journey th...

Studying Bantu migrations across sub-Saharan Africa?  Here's a great 10-minute clip from Jared Diamond's documentary, Guns, Germs, and Steel. This might be a great complement to Eric Beckman's terrrific lesson about the Swahili language which is a Bantu language. Diamond notes that words in a number of African languages sound remarkably similar because of a common root.  They all come from the Bantu, which originated in West Africa and spread throughout tropical Africa about 5000 years ago.

Here's a great website about the Russian Revolution, called  1917, Free History ,  from Yandex Publishing.  It includes diaries, letters, memoirs,  and newspapers.  The site includes some terrific resources including the two awesome animated clips below, the first about the collapse of the Russian Empire and second about the death of Rasputin. Each runs for about five minutes. You can also see a cool infographic of European dynasties , which you can enlarge or minimize. You could even create a kind of web quest with the European dynasties infographic because it includes both profiles and interesting connections. 

Here's a great resource for teaching decolonization from the National National Center . It includes educational material and resources by theme and region. Click on Africa and you'll find a long list of primary sources like the Mau Mau Warrior Oath and Patrice Lumumba's “ Speech at Accra ” in 1958. And if you click on Asia, you'll find Mohammed Ali Jinnah's “ Presidential Address to the Muslim League ” in 1940 and the Indian National Congress “‘ Quit India’ Resolution” in 1942.

Here's a great review of the key events of the Russian Revolution from the  Oregon State University Ecampus.

Studying global migrations in the 19th century? Here's an awesome map from Charles Joseph Minard showing the major trends in migration in 1858.  The map key shows six major ports of debarkation and the major destinations. We are working on global migrations in World History.  I'm going to put the link to the map on Google Classroom and ask the kids to identify major trends and to try to identify the factors pushing migrants to different locations. You can find the map at the online Library of Congress site  and you can manipulate it by making it larger or smaller so you can clearly see specific port names.

Here is an excellent twitter thread from Rebecca Anne Goetz, Associate Professor of History at New York University, about Governor Northam's recent portrayal of the first Africans to land on our shores in 1619 as "indentured servants." Professor Goetz argues that Northam was "engaging a narrative of white innocence, of Virginian innocence, a narrative that slavery wasn't that bad." Governor Northam spoke to Face the Nation this weekend about the crisis that his yearbook photo caused. He said that he wanted to stay in office and work on civil rights and equity. In the clip below, he mentions the 400th anniversary&nbsp of the first "indentured servants" to arrive on our shore. Professor Goetz reviews the historiography surorounding the first slaves to land on our shores. Thread by @historianess: "Every time I think I'm done with Virginia history, I get dragged back in. But here's why Northam referring to the "20. and Odd Negroes...

Here are two great resources for studying the Silk Roads. The first comes from Saudi Aramco World . It's an essay called Spine of the Silk Road  in which the author, Andrew F. Lawler, reviews the importance of khans which were one of three types of "hotels" along the Silk Roads. Funduqs and caravanserais were the other two types of lodging for Silk Raod traders. Lawler notes; All three were, to varying degrees across continents and centuries, vibrant centers where peoples, religions and ethnicities mingled. In particular, caravanserais were probably more like airports today, resembling small towns in themselves, with places to sleep, eat, shop, pray, meet and mingle while livestock rested, awaiting the next stage of the journey. Here you might make an unexpected profit on a load of exotic goods, trade rumors of bandits or tax collectors, or just savor tea with your own countrymen in a distant land. The second resource comes from the  Block Museum of Art at Northwest...

Here are SIX excellent podcasts that include episodes on topics in world history. Fifteen Minute   History Fifteen Minute History comes from the University of Texas at Austin and includes topics in both World and US History.  The World History topics are organized and searchable by region. Some of the more interesting episodes include The Trans-Pacific Slave Trade The Trans-Pacific Silver Trade and early modern globalization Indian Ocean Trade  from its origins to the eve of imperialism The Legacy of WWI in the Balkans and the Middle East The Russian Empire on the eve of WWI The Bolshevik Revolution at 100 History of the Ottoman Empire, Part 1 and Part 2 Dig History Dig History started in 2015. Interesting episodes for World History include: Hearts of Darkness : Victorian Imperialism and Travel of the African Continent  Rebel Slaves and Resistance in the Revolutionary Caribbean Devşirme: The Tribute of Children, Slavery and the Ottoman...