This is an ongoing class that covers a different piece of World History each week through primary sources and class discussion. Each week is a different topic and assignment so students can join in at any time. Most classes will start with a short lecture on the topic, then students will spend some time reading the passages for the week and answering guiding questions, and last we will discuss the readings as a class. Some weeks we will do more than one set of readings and questions during class, depending on time. 

I will post the class material for students each week, so students need no outside materials. Though we will cover events chronologically, we will not cover every part of World History. Instead, each week will focus on a topic (or two) that we will deep dive into. You can find a full list of the topics and dates below.

All of my classes are inclusive and anti-racist. We will be covering tough subjects and tackling tough topics from the point of view of the people involved, particularly the marginalized groups involved.



Fall 2024 Topics and Dates

Week of 9/2/24-9/6/24 -- Martin Luther lesson
Week of 9/9/24-9/13/24 -- Galileo lesson
Week of 9/16/24-9/20/24 -- Dutch East India Company lesson; Colonization/Safavid Dynasty lesson
Week of 9/23/24-9/27/24 -- Tokugawa Shogunate and Feudalism lesson; Portuguese Colonize Angola activity; Louis XIV and Absolute Monarchy lesson
Week of 9/30/24-10/4/24 -- Glorious Revolution lesson
Week of 10/7/24-10/11/24 -- no class
Week of 10/14/24-10/18/24 -- French Revolution Overview; Reign of Terror lesson
Week of 10/21/24-10/25/24 -- Toussaint L'Ouverture activity; Code Napoleon activity
Week of 10/28/24-11/1/24 -- Factory Life lesson
Week of 11/4/24-11/8/24 -- Sepoy Rebellion lesson
Week of 11/11/24-11/15/24 -- French Imperialism activity; King Leopold and the Congo Free State lesson
Week of 11/18/24-11/22/24 -- Battle of Adwa lesson; Indonesia Battles Imperialism activity
Week of 11/25/24-11/29/24 -- no class
Week of 12/2/24-12/6/24 -- Meiji Leaders and "Civilization" lesson; Meiji Restoration images activity
Week of 12/9/24-12/13/24 -- Chinese Women's Freedoms in 1907 lesson; Anti-Suffrage in Great Britain lesson
Week of 12/16/24-12/20/24 -- Battle of Somme lesson
Week of 12/23/24-12/27/24 -- no class
Week of 12/30/24-1/3/25 -- no class
Week of 1/6/25-1/10/25 -- Armistice activity
Week of 1/13/25-1/17/25  -- Women's War of 1929 activity; Salt March in India activity
Week of 1/20/25-1/24/25 -- Ataturk and Women's Rights in Turkey lesson
Week of 1/27/25-1/31/25 -- Appeasement lesson
Week of 2/3/25-2/7/25 -- Invasion of Nanking lesson; Nazi Propaganda lesson
Week of 2/10/25-2/14/25 -- India Partition lesson
Week of 2/24/25-2/28/25 -- no class
Week of 3/3/25-3/7/25 -- Cold War in Guatemala lesson; Korean War activity
Week of 3/10/25-3/14/25 -- Assassination of Patrice Lumumba activity
Week of 3/17/25-3/21/25 -- Cuban Missile Crisis activity
Week of 3/24/25-3/28/25 -- China's Cultural Revolution lesson
Week of 3/31/25-4/4/25 -- 1973 Chile Coup
Week of 4/7/25-4/11/25 -- Iran-Contra Affair lesson
Week of 4/14/25-4/18/25 -- Zapatista Uprising lesson
Week of 4/21/25-4/25/25 -- no class
Week of 4/28/25-5/2/25 -- Rwandan Genocide lesson; One Hundred Days of Genocide in Rwanda