Silk Routes |
Route of the 7th expedition of Zheng He's fleet (1431-1433) |
"China-the Cake of Kings (1898 French Political Cartoon)
Gandhi picture in Internet café in Varanasi, India, 2001 |
Click here for the AP world history course page:
The first link on the course page is the current Course Description.
For the overall course see Unit 1: Maps, Time and World History and Unit 2: History and Memory focused on historical meaning and change of Columbus, the Maya, and museums.
The World History Association (WHA) is the organization that has been most influential in changing the field of world history in its scholarship and teaching. The WHA publishes the Journal of World History and has many local affiliates.
Gaming the Past: Historical Simulations in the Classroomoffers reviews and links to popular world history games for learning.
Children & Youth in World History provides primary source and teaching resources for learning about the experiences of young people in history.
Bibliography, the following are mostly journal readings for history teachers. They could be useful to give students for additional reading or extra credit assignments. Some are framed as extra credit assignments.
Compare the website: http://www.hyperhistory.com/ to http://www.hyperhistory.net/ in terms of point of view, content – what is left in and what is left out, the WHAP habits of mind and skills and how they’re applied, etc.
Read William McNeill’s “Why Study History” on the American Historical Association’s Perspectives here: http://www.historians.org/pubs/archives/whmcneillwhystudyhistory.htm
and Peter Stearns’s “Why Study History” on the American Historical Association’s Perspectives here: http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/WhyStudyHistory.htm then compare with FFA’s introduction.
Read March/April 2008 H-World discussion on the textbook The World. Search H-World discussion logs, find March 2008 and read posts from March 21-25 (can do more too – hard to stop once you start). What is the overall sense of the book you get from the posts?
Read about “American exceptionalism.” Is the course “world history” a case of American exceptionalism and/or a case of American colonialism?
Read William H. McNeill, "An Emerging Consensus about World History?," World History Connected November 2003 http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/1.1/mcneill.html [14 paragraphs]
Read William McNeill, “The Rise of the West after 25 Years” in the Journal of World History here: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/jwh/jwh011p001.pdf
Read Gilbert Allardyce, “Toward World History: American Historians and the Coming of the World History Course: in the Journal of World History here: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/jwh/jwh011p023.pdf
Read Ralph Crozier, “World History in the People’s Republic of China” in the Journal of World History here: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/jwh/jwh012p151.pdf
Read Jerry Bentley, "Sea and Ocean Basins as Frameworks of Historical Analysis," Geographical Review 89, no. 2 (April 1999): 215–25. Available through Bridging World History here: http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory/unit_readings_1.html
Read David Christian, "World History in Context," Journal of World History 14, no. 4 (December 2003): 437–52. Available through Bridging World History here: http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory/unit_readings_1.html
Read William Everdell, "How to Use the Theme of Technology in Teaching the World History Survey Course," World History Connected May 2004 http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/1.2/everdell.html> [22 paragraphs]
Fred Spier, "The Small History of the Big History Course at the University of Amsterdam," World History Connected May 2005 http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/2.2/spier.html [16 paragraphs]
Watch Craig Benjamin’s Big History videos through this site: http://www90.homepage.villanova.edu/lowell.gustafson/bighistory/links.html You can also read articles there too for extra credit.
Read David Christian, "What's the Use of Big History?," World History Connected October 2005 http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/3.1/christian.html 64 paragraphs with many pictures and graphs from a powerpoint.
Read selections from the Big History Forum from World History Connected, minimum is to read Benjamin’s introduction, Cynthia Stokes Brown’s article on civilization and at least one other (don’t be afraid to read them all!).