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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…

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…

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…

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of free, digitally available teaching units (called Modules Ready to Educate, or MREs) that teach both skills and historical content suitable for introductory world history courses.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

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….

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…

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…