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Author: JesseSpohnholz

New article on H/21 published!

Posted on October 3, 2023 by JesseSpohnholz

After publishing 8 new teaching modules in 2023, our H/21 team is busy testing more for publication in 2024. In the meantime, Jesse Spohnholz and Brenna Miller just published a new article on our grassroots collaborative teaching project. Check it out at https://journals.h-net.org/phtc/article/view/203! In the spirit of H/21, it’s also free and open access!

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Three new H/21 teaching modules published!

Posted on June 28, 2023June 28, 2023 by JesseSpohnholz

Our newest teaching modules for the History for the 21st Century (H/21) project have been published! “The Global 1905: Facets of a Year; Facets of an Era,” written by Steven Harris (San Francisco State University) examines several co-incident and interconnected developments in 1905 to interrogate our relationship to events as they occur, how we make…

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Imperial Strategies in the Early Chinese Empires is published!

Posted on June 13, 2023 by JesseSpohnholz

Our newest teaching module for the History for the 21st Century (H/21) project has just been published. It’s titled “Imperial Strategies in the Early Chinese Empires” and was written by Andrew Hardy, an historian of early Chinese history at UC Berkeley. As all our teaching materials, it involves student-centered, inquiry-based, active learning for introductory world…

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Hunting, Imperialism, and the Wilderness is published!

Posted on April 4, 2023June 13, 2023 by JesseSpohnholz

Our newest H/21 teaching module, Hunting, Imperialism and the Wilderness has been published! Written by Erica Mukherjee, NYU-Shanghai, this lets of lessons compares masculinity, race, power, and ideas about nature in British East Africa, the U.S. West, and colonial India. It begins by asking students their experiences with and understanding of the wilderness. It then…

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2023 Call for Proposals!

Posted on February 21, 2023February 21, 2023 by JesseSpohnholz

Call for Proposals: History for the 21st Century For 2023, H/21 is again sponsoring 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of free, digitally available teaching units (called Modules Ready to Educate, or MREs) that teach both skills and historical content suitable for introductory world history courses.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…

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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, 2022March 23, 2023 by JesseSpohnholz

We are happy to announce that Dr. Brenna Miler has started as the new Assistant Director of the H/21 project. Miller is also a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Roots of Contemporary Issues Program at Washington State University. In 2018, she earned her PhD from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on the history…

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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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  • New article on H/21 published!
  • Three new H/21 teaching modules published!
  • Imperial Strategies in the Early Chinese Empires is published!
  • Hunting, Imperialism, and the Wilderness is published!
  • 2023 Call for Proposals!
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