In addition to this short 8-minute video, the OER Project also has an   interesting matching activity for Scientific Revolution.

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

How did Buddhism get to China?  Yes, Asoka sent missionaries to Asia but it was the travel records of three Chinese pilgrims who introduced ...

How did Buddhism get to China?  Yes, Asoka sent missionaries to Asia but it was the travel records of three Chinese pilgrims who introduced ...

Here's an idea for an end-of-the-year world history project. In Virginia, we still have a couple of weeks of school although we have...

Here is a Cold War Stations activity that I use with my AP World students when we cover the Cold War. One of my colleagues develope...

Here is an awesome summary of US & Iranian relations by UNC Professor, Dr. Charles Kurzman. You'll learn the history of Iran from the rev...

Studying the twentieth century just before World War I? Here's a hyperdoc I made , using a template from Ms. Byars,  that allows studen...

Here is a great essay (editorial) about the Sykes-Picot Agreement signed 100 years ago in May 1916. The writer, Hisham Melhem, is a colum...

Teaching Imperialism? Here, Cecil Rhodes discovers a diamond mine in South Africa that will eventually become De Beers, the world's largest ...

Studying the Russian Revolution. The Digital History Reader has some great primary resources, including posters, music, and text docume...

Here is a s hort hyperdoc  on the social effects of the Industriaal Revolution using resouces from a terrific website developed by the Ohio ...

Studying ancient Rome? Here's a great YouTube playlist from the American Institute for Roman Culture that offers videos for every aspect o...

Was the Haitian Revolution with its assertion of human rights the defining event of the revolutions period in the 18th and 19th centuries?...

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...

Studying the silver trade between 1450 and 1750. Here are four terrific resources. Three podcasts about silver and an awesome multimedia s...

How did the role of women change over time? That's the question that historian Amanda Forman tries to answer in this terrific documentary ...

Teaching Hinduism?   The Himalayan Academy , which publishes Hinduism Today magazin e, has a terrific 23 minute documentary about the o...

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! ...

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...

The Dark Ages were not so dark, according to this fascinating clip from PragerU. They were full of color with carnivals, and revived popul...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

In this review of Mughal art, William Dalrymple offers a terrific portrait of the Mughal emperors -- Akbar, Humayun, Jahangir, and Shah...

Here are some excellent resources for reviewing the Sunni/ Shia split. I paraticularly like the clip from the Council of Foreign Relations w...

Here is one of several great comics ideal for World History and U.S History. They were developed by the NYCDOE Department of Social Studies ...

If you have never used AI to create an assignment, you should give it a try. I teach World History, both AP World and general World History ...

Origins Chiswell discovered lead deposits on Cherokee land near the west of the sometime in the 1750s. After William Byrd III, who served as a colonel with British forces during the , constructed F...

He destroyed the great capital of Persepolis and the temples and emblems of the ancient Zoroastrian religion. So, unlike Westerners who t...

Students cannot understand the current crisis between the United States and Iran without understanding the history that brought the two coun...

Here's an engaging history of the world (this is the clean, school version--yes, there's a not-so-clean version). It was made by Bill Wurt...

Aided by her blond hair, blue eyes and fluency in German, she crossed enemy lines to spy on Germany for the French. She later received the Legion of Honor.

BARRY STRAUSS Revisiting the Battle of Actium.

In the sweltering days of early July 1913, more than 50,000 men gathered for a most unusual reunion. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of

Here is a hyperdoc about the Sogdians who played a critical  role in the trade of goods and ideas on the Silk Road.  It's based on an excel...

Studying decolonization?  Here are two terrific short (25 to 30 minutes) documentaries about two independence movements in Africa--in G...

In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited “misinformation and lies” from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.