world history

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• 11/21/2021
  

  To Grasp Geopolitical Transformations, Don't Forget to Look at the Map

  by Tim Marshall

  Historians and thinkers in other fields could benefit from a greater attention to geography and a greater understanding of how ideas, politics and identities are anchored to the physical space of the earth. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/18/2021
  

  David Graeber and David Wengrow Have Given Human History a Rewrite

  by William Deresiewicz

  A new effort at a synthesis of the sweep of human history upends what recent popularizers have presented as a progressive path from hunter-gatherer society to corporate capitalism by emphasizing choice, contingency, and the possibility of doing things differently.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/4/2021
  

  Niall Ferguson Examines Disasters of the Past and Disasters Still to Come (Review)

  Niall Ferguson's synthetic overview of disaster in human history is ambitious and accessible, but it makes some odd decisions, including dismissing the severity of the climate change threat to focus on less predictable potential threats. 

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• 5/2/2021
  

  Locating the Present in the Past: a World History Teaching Challenge

  by Peter N. Stearns

  I have always believed that the primary goal of world history teaching was to help students place the world around them today in context of the past.

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• 9/13/2020
  

  Richard Haass on the Need for Historically Informed Policy in a Changing World

  by David O'Connor

  "A democracy requires that its citizens be informed, and it was evident far too many citizens in the United States and other countries could not be described as globally literate."

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• 8/16/2020
  

  Examining Christian End Times Rhetoric in the Time of COVID

  by Andrew Joseph Pegoda

  Historical amnesia and everyday privilege are what make it seem to some Christians that end prophecies are actively in progress.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  7/13/2020
  

  Survival Of The Kindest: Can Our Better Nature Help Us Build A Better World?

  Read an excerpt from historian Rutger Bregman's "Human Kind: A Hopeful History" before his interview on NPR's "On Point" on July 13th.

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• SOURCE: Financial Times
  5/29/2020
  

  Rutger Bregman on His Intellectual Journey and the Problems of the Speaking Circuit

  “Powerful players pay obscene sums for talks. For a 10-minute speech you can get my mother’s annual salary in special education. Generally, the more you’re paid, the dumber your audience. The cleverest audiences are students and, of course, old people."

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• 5/21/2020
  

  Kenneth Pomeranz wins 2021 Toynbee Prize

  Kenneth Pomeranz's work on global economic history has been recognized for driving new understanding of the history of global exchange and sparked global collaboration among historians. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/22/2020
  

  'Acts of Kindness Are Really Contagious.' Historian Rutger Bregman Argues for a New Way of Thinking About Humanity

  "What I’m trying to do in this book is to turn this narrative around, to show that actually, over thousands of years, people have actually evolved to be friendly," says Bregman.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/9/2020
  

  Rutger Bregman: The Dutch Historian who Rocked Davos and Unearthed the Real Lord of the Flies

  The historian offers a hopeful view of human nature in his latest book, "Humankind." It couldn’t have come at a better time.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/15/20
  

  Nigeria Is Haunted by Its Civil War

  by Max Siollun

  The conflict’s legacy continues to hold the country captive, half a century later.

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• 9/15/19
  

  Trump—A Wannabe Dictator in Training

  by John C. Waugh

  Trump has suggested how good it might be for him to enjoy a third term, perhaps more, even though the Constitution forcefully forbids it. 

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• SOURCE: Pacific Standard
  7-26-18
  

  Complaints against the AP history exam keep coming

  by David M. Perry

  The demands for rote memorization, coupled with Western centrism, are failing our students.

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• 5/6/18
  

  It’s 2018 and Still High Schools Aren’t Teaching World History?

  by Jeremy Greene

  They call it world history, but it’s really just Western Civ. Case study: Massachusetts.

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• SOURCE: Cleveland.com
  12-23-14
  

  High school students now must take a world history class to graduate, new law says

  "If our citizens and workforce are to compete and prosper in the global economy, they must have a strong foundation in world history and geography."

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• 4-29-13
  

  The History of the World Keeps Changing. Literally.

  by Odd Arne Westad

  Image via Shutterstock.Excerpted from "The History of the World, Sixth Edition" by J.M. Roberts and Odd Arne West. Copyright © 2013 Odd Arne Westad. All rights reserved.