Jesse Spohnholz and Brenna Miller have recieved a Humanities Initiatives at College and Universities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2024-26 to support the History for the 21st Century project! The grant funds the creation, testing, and production of 10 additional modules over 2 years based on our projects core principles: 1)…
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New Module Published! — Atlantic Piracy in Global Perspective, c.1500–1750
This week, we published our newest teaching module, Atlantic Piracy in Global Perspective, c.1500–1750, prepared by Molly A. Warsh at the University of Pittsburgh. This module introduces students to the global forces that led to the rise and fall of Atlantic piracy, the kinds of people who became pirates, and why some people got called…
H/21 Authors Host Virtual Workshops on their Modules
This Spring, three History for the 21st Century authors will present a series of virtual workshops hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Alliance for Learning in World History and Global Learning Center. Each session will explore one peer-reviewed module created for the H21 website, facilitated by its creator. Wednesday, March 20 “Refugees in the Early…
New Module Published! — Africans and the African Diaspora in World War I
We are happy to announce the publication of yet another History for the 21st Century module! Our newest module is Africans and the African Diaspora in World War I, submitted by Wendy Urban-Mead at Bard College. That lesson begins with a standard narrative of the Great War, but then asks how we understand it differently,…
New article on H/21 published!
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!
Three new H/21 teaching modules published!
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…
Imperial Strategies in the Early Chinese Empires is published!
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…
Hunting, Imperialism, and the Wilderness is published!
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…
2023 Call for Proposals!
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…
H/21 seeking peer reviewers!
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….