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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…

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…

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of free, digitally available teaching units (called Modules Ready to Educate, or MREs) that teach both skills and historical content suitable for introductory world history courses.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…

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…

The History of the 21st Century (H/21) project is excited to announce that Jesse Spohnholz will be its new director! After a COVID slumber during 2020, H/21 is excited to have renewed energy under Spohnholz’s leadership. The founding directors, Trevor Getz and Steve Harris, remain actively involved in the project as members of the Executive…

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’s (University of Michigan) keynote reviewed the long history of incomplete efforts at broad curricular reform and challenged us to be comprehensive, creative, community-focused, and effective….

Donation will fund effort to transform introductory courses According to the American Historical Association, between 2008 and 2017 the number of U.S. college students pursuing history degrees dropped by nearly a third. But San Francisco State University History Department faculty members Trevor Getz and Steve Harris aren’t worried that the history major will soon be…