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Author: JesseSpohnholz

H/21 seeking peer reviewers!

Posted on July 8, 2022 by JesseSpohnholz

The History for the 21st Century (H/21) project is getting ready to improve and expand its offerings! As we continue to work to build of community of faculty helping faculty to engage students in the introductory history college course, we are looking for colleagues with expertise to serve as peer reviewers for new teaching modules….

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H/21 has a new Assistant Director!

Posted on May 12, 2022 by JesseSpohnholz

We are happy to announce that Dr. Fiona Holter has started as the new Assistant Director of the H/21 project. Holter is also a Staff Historian for the U.S. Army. In 2021, she earned her PhD from the University of Mississippi with her dissertation, “Between the Two Great Battlefields: Scottish Medical Women’s Encounters with the…

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Call for Applications: Assistant Director of History for the 21st Century

Posted on January 25, 2022 by JesseSpohnholz

The Assistant Director of History for the 21st Century will support the Director in the production of the MREs. Their central responsibilities will include the design of digital MREs, the project’s website, and interactive portal(s) for faculty; liaising with authors (who will also be practicing historians) to ensure conformity of skills, language, and depth of…

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Call for Proposals

Posted on December 28, 2021December 17, 2022 by JesseSpohnholz

For the first phase of this project (2021–2023), H/21 will sponsor the production of free, digitally available teaching units (called Modules Ready to Educate, or MREs) that teach both skills and historical content suitable for introductory world history courses. These modules will: be designed for college students in General Education courses. engage students in active…

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World History Association adopts H/21

Posted on December 28, 2021December 28, 2021 by JesseSpohnholz

World History Association is the new institutional home for the History for the 21st Century (:”H/21″) project. Jesse Spohnholz (Washington State University) will remain the director, and the board will continue to consist of Trevor Getz (SFSU), Molly Warsh (University of Pittsburgh), Urmi Willougby (Pitzer College), Steve Harris (SFSU), and now also Shane Carter (Orias…

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Conference Launch!

Posted on November 12, 2021December 11, 2022 by JesseSpohnholz

The H/21 initiative launched in August 2019 with a meeting at SFSU of leading history educators (including veterans of significant world history textbook projects) from around the country. Bob Bain of the University of Michigan delivered the keynote address, which reviewed the long history of incomplete efforts at broad curricular reform and challenged us to…

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  • H/21 seeking peer reviewers!
  • H/21 has a new Assistant Director!
  • Call for Applications: Assistant Director of History for the 21st Century
  • Call for Proposals
  • World History Association adopts H/21
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