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World History Teachers Blog: Cecil Rhodes Discovers Diamonds: Clip from Queen Victoria's Empire bit.ly/44IhIPN #sschat
Cecil Rhodes Discovers Diamonds: Clip from Queen Victoria's Empire
Teaching Imperialism? Here, Cecil Rhodes discovers a diamond mine in South Africa that will eventually become De Beers, the world's largest ...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
World History Teachers Blog: Russian Revolution: Primary Sources/ Activities bit.ly/4rMb3OB #sschat #edusky
Russian Revolution: Primary Sources/ Activities
Studying the Russian Revolution. The Digital History Reader has some great primary resources, including posters, music, and text docume...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
World History Teachers Blog: Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution bit.ly/4psHUGs #sschat #edusky
Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution
Here is a s hort hyperdoc  on the social effects of the Industriaal Revolution using resouces from a terrific website developed by the Ohio ...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
World History Teachers Blog: Ancient Rome: Videos, Lectures & Seminars- bit.ly/4puxgi4- #sschat #edusky
Ancient Rome: Videos, Lectures & Seminars
Studying ancient Rome? Here's a great YouTube playlist from the American Institute for Roman Culture that offers videos for every aspect o...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
World History Teachers Blog: The Haitian Revolution: Was it the Most Significant #sschat #edusky bit.ly/4i32bzm
The Haitian Revolution: Was it the Most Significant
Was the Haitian Revolution with its assertion of human rights the defining event of the revolutions period in the 18th and 19th centuries?...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Trump’s War on Carolina Carnations
Incredible video from Reddit (too large to upload the screencap). CBP agents attempt to detain a flower vendor and end up getting chased into a vacant lot by a crowd of teenagers. What a bunch of impotent sad sacks.

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November 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
World History Teachers Blog: Mita & Encomienda Labor Systems: Excellent Recorded Lecture #sschat #edusky bit.ly/47FEita
Mita & Encomienda Labor Systems: Excellent Recorded Lecture
Here is an excellent recorded lecture on the mita system from another teacher. It runs about 30 minutes and offers a great overview. I learn...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
World History Teachers Blog: Trans-Pacific Silver Trade: Four Great Resources bit.ly/4h6neAB #sschat #edusky
Trans-Pacific Silver Trade: Four Great Resources
Studying the silver trade between 1450 and 1750. Here are four terrific resources. Three podcasts about silver and an awesome multimedia s...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
World History Teachers Blog: The Changing Role of Women Throughout History: Great Documentary bit.ly/3WyY3x7 #sschat #edusky
The Changing Role of Women Throughout History: Great Documentary
How did the role of women change over time? That's the question that historian Amanda Forman tries to answer in this terrific documentary ...
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October 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
World History Teachers Blog: Hindu India: Terrific Short Documentary. bit.ly/3VDL5xR #sschat. #edusky
Hindu India: Terrific Short Documentary
Teaching Hinduism?   The Himalayan Academy , which publishes Hinduism Today magazin e, has a terrific 23 minute documentary about the o...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
World History Teachers Blog: Rome Reborn: Narrated by Khan Academy bit.ly/4mxRIMV #sscht. #edusky
Rome Reborn: Narrated by Khan Academy
Many of you may have seen Bernard Fischer's 3-D model of Rome showing a simulation of the city's urban development. It's pretty cool as is! ...
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September 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
World History Teachers Blog: Hanseatic League: Two Good Video Clips. bit.ly/42vo9V4 #sschat #edusky
Hanseatic League: Two Good Video Clips
While it did not rival either the Indian Ocean or Silk Road trade, the Hanseatic League knit together northern Europe and the Baltics into a...
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September 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
World History Teachers Blog: How Dark were The Dark Ages? bit.ly/4nsMmno #sschat #edusky
How Dark were The Dark Ages?
The Dark Ages were not so dark, according to this fascinating clip from PragerU. They were full of color with carnivals, and revived popul...
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September 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
World History Teachers Blog: European Sailors and Navigational Tools in the Age of Encounter and Exchange bit.ly/4gcEfsC #edusky #sschat
European Sailors and Navigational Tools in the Age of Encounter and Exchange
Studying European sailors in the 1500's? Here are two good resources, both of which might work for short web quests. One includes the Mari...
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September 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
World History Teachers Blog: Two Great Documentaries: Temple Empire of Angkor Wat and the Spice Empire of Majapahit bit.ly/3XD3wlM #sschat #edusky
Two Great Documentaries: Temple Empire of Angkor Wat and the Spice Empire of Majapahit
Here are two great videos that work well for Unit 1 in AP World History.  Both come from Peter Lee in a series for CNA Insider, called "Mark...
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August 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Wow! That is a beutiful building!
August 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Aug 13
Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these cords suggests this record-keeping was practiced by commoners as well as elites.
Who made these knotted records during the Inca Empire?
Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these cords suggests this record-keeping was practiced by commoners as well as elites.
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August 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these cords suggests this record-keeping was practiced by commoners as well as elites.
Who made these knotted records during the Inca Empire?
Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these cords suggests this record-keeping was practiced by commoners as well as elites.
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August 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
World History Teachers Blog: Buddhism Along the Silk Road: Hyperdoc bit.ly/45rNG2k #sschat #edusky
Buddhism Along the Silk Road: Hyperdoc
Here is a Hypedoc (Webquest) about the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road between the 2nd and 12th centuries. It's based on a terr...
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August 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
World History Teachers Blog: Greece and Rome: Two Excellent Video Overviews bit.ly/4mcANAj #sschat #edusky
Greece and Rome: Two Excellent Overviews
Here are two terrific video reviews of Greece and Rome.  The Greece review runs 18 minutes and the Rome review runs just over 20 minutes...
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August 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
World History Teachers Blog: Mugals- Art & Tolerance- bit.ly/3GL3e9e #sschat #edusky
Mugals- Art & Tolerance
In this review of Mughal art, William Dalrymple offers a terrific portrait of the Mughal emperors -- Akbar, Humayun, Jahangir, and Shah...
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July 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
World History Teachers Blog: Sunni/Shia Divide- Resources. bit.ly/45fJiEB #sschat #edusky
Sunni/Shia Divide- Resources
Here are some excellent resources for reviewing the Sunni/ Shia split. I paraticularly like the clip from the Council of Foreign Relations w...
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July 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Check out this thread--- bsky.app/profile/tj-s...
I write serious history—via biography—for a non-academic audience. So I'd like to say something about Ken Burns's remark, something that also explains why AI can't write history.

Pardon me for citing the example of one of my books, "Custer's Trials," on one of history's best-known figures.
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“We wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, “and make a film that simply shows what happened.”

That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️
July 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I write serious history—via biography—for a non-academic audience. So I'd like to say something about Ken Burns's remark, something that also explains why AI can't write history.

Pardon me for citing the example of one of my books, "Custer's Trials," on one of history's best-known figures.
1/12
“We wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, “and make a film that simply shows what happened.”

That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️
“whatever you write, you are taking a stance on your subject and on the practice of history itself. the suggestion that other historians are not also interested in ‘show[ing] what happened’ is, at best, careless.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
July 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Glad to do it. The comics are great and I can't wait to use them in the fall.
July 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM