The World History Collection at Primary Source
The World History Center at Northeastern University (1994-2004) has closed its doors and transferred much of its teaching resource collection to Primary Source. Materials are interspersed throughout our regular collection. The lesson plans are housed in our vertical file.
key: ES-Elementary MS-Middle School HS-High School
Reference Sources
Facts On File. World History on File. The Age of Revolution, 1750 to 1914. New York: Facts On File, 1999.
The third volume illuminates an era of extraordinary and rapid change, democratic revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the establishment of European dominance over much of the world.
Call Number: REF 909.81 Fac
Facts On File. World History on File. The 20th Century. New York: Facts On File, 1999.
The fourth volume in the chronologically organized World History On File set, The 20th Century, Updated Edition covers all the major events in world history in the last century. Authoritative and current, it presents the triumphs of democracy as well as the scourges of totalitarianism and ethnic violence, and explores the breakup of the old world order and enduring problems of poverty and environmental degradation. For this edition, the pages have been brought up to date with the most recent developments and statistical data, covering events, organizations, and key players that have defined the 20th century.
Call Number: REF 909.82 Fac
Facts On File. World History on File. Early Civilizations: Prehistory to 300 C.E. New York: Facts On File, 1998.
"This first volume chronicles the evolution of humankind, from our earliest origins in East Africa through the emergence of Homo sapiens communities around the world and their subsequent development into true civilizations."
Call Number: REF 930 Fac
Altman, Ida. The Early History of Greater Mexico. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.
Along with better-known aspects of Mexican history. this comprehensive text introduces the reader to such important topics as the role of Africans in colonial Mexico, the nature of marriage and family, cultural change and continuity among Indian groups, and the causes and significance of disorder and rebellion, both before and during the Wars for Independence.
Call Number: 972 Alt
Bickerton, Ian J. A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004.
An up-to-date, concise history which uses a chronological framework to present the critical issues, including Great Power rivalries, causes and results of the major wars, the rise of Palestinian nationalism, the Israeli-occupied territories, and the Intifada. Contains b&w photographs. Call Number: 956.04 Bic
Blaut, James M. The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. New York: Guilford Press, 1993.
challenges the notion of "Eurocentric diffusionism": the pervasive presumption that superior Western culture has naturally flowed outward, bringing modernization to the rest of the world. In four chapters the author argues in detail that the historical propositions supporting European preeminence are myths. The conquest of the New World was simply the result of greater maritime accessibility to America, and the rise of Europe, after 1492, was due to the immense wealth of subsequent colonial accumulation.
Call Number: 901 Blau
Buel, Richard. In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Richard Buel investigates the influence of Britain's navy on America's Revolutionary War economy. He discusses the damage that Britain inflicted by seizing major colonial centers and denying Americans access to overseas markets, and he shows how both Spain and France bolstered the economic survival of the infant republic.
Call Number: 973.3 Bue
Burstein, Stanley M. Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum. Princeton: M. Wiener Publishers, 1998.
The region of Kush and Axum is known for antiquity only from dispersed written testimonies and from archaeological remains; it is a region for which connected political narrative is impossible. For many years..Stanley Burstein has worked to bring to scholarly and public attention the little that is known about it The present volume, Ancient African Kingdoms, offers lightly annotated translations of twenty-seven texts concerned with the geography, ethnography, and history of the ancient equivalents of the modern nation-states of Sudan and Ethiopia.
Call Number: 939.78 Bur
Chase, Kenneth Warren. Firearms: A Global History to 1700. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Traces the history of firearms from their invention in China in the 1100s to the 1700s, when European firearms had become clearly superior. In Firearms, Chase asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms, not the Chinese, and answers this question by looking at how firearms were used throughout the world. Early firearms were restricted to infantry and siege warfare, limiting their use outside of Europe and Japan. Steppe and desert nomads imposed a different style of warfare on the Middle East, India, and China--a style incompatible with firearms. By the time that better firearms allowed these regions to turn the tables on the nomads, Japan's self-imposed isolation left Europe with no rival in firearms design, production, or use, with lasting consequences.
Call Number: 623.4 Cha
Crosby, Alfred W. Germs, Seeds & Animals: Studies in Ecological History. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.
Contents: The Columbian voyages, the Columbian exchange, and their historians -- Ecological Imperialism: the overseas migration of Western Europeans as a biological phenomenon -- The biological metamorphosis of the Americas -- The British Empire as a product of continental drift -- Infectious disease and the demography of the Atlantic peoples -- Virgin soil epidemics as a factor in the Aboriginal depopulation of America -- "God .. would destroy them, and give their country to another people .." -- Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience -- The demographic effect of American crops in Europe -- Demography, maize, land, and the American character -- Reassessing 1492 -- Life (with all its problems) in space.
Call Number: 304.2 Cro
Curtin, Philip D. Cross-cultural Trade in World History. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Examines the trade between peoples of differing cultures through world history. Extending from the ancient world to the coming of the commercial revolution, The book encompasses a broad and diverse group of trading relationships. Drawing on insights from economic history and anthropology, Professor Curtin has attempted to move beyond a Europe-centred view of history, to one that can help us understand the entire range of societies in the human past. Examples have been chosen that illustrate the greatest variety of trading relationships between cultures. The opening chapters look at Africa, while subsequent chapters treat the ancient world, the Mediterranean trade with China, the Asian trade in the east, and European entry into the trade with maritime Asia, the Armenian trade carriers of the seventeenth century, and the North American fur trade.
Call Number: 382 Cur
Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions: A Novel. Seal Press, 1989.
Tambu, an adolescent living in colonial Rhodesia of the '60s, seizes the opportunity to leave her rural community to study at the missionary school run by her wealthy, British-educated uncle. With an uncanny and often critical self-awareness, Tambu narrates this skillful first novel by a Zimbabwe native. Like many heroes of the bildungsroman, Tambu, in addition to excelling at her curriculum, slowly reaches some painful conclusions--about her family, her proscribed role as a woman, and the inherent evils of colonization.
Call Number: 823 Dan
Daum, Andreas W. et al., eds. America, The Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Presenting new perspectives on the Vietnam War, its global repercussions, and its role in modern history, this volume reveals "America's War" as an international event that reverberated worldwide. The essays address political, military, and diplomatic issues and the cultural and intellectual consequences of "Vietnam." They compare the Vietnam War to other major conflicts in world history. "America's War" is depicted as a global event whose origins and characteristics deserve an interdisciplinary treatment.
Call Number: 909.82 Dau
Dunn, Ross E., ed. The New World History: A Teacher's Companion . Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.
"A collection of short articles on the teaching of world history (directed mainly at college teachers, but applicable to H.S. The authors include the founding fathers of the field--for example, William McNeill, Philip Curtin, Leften Stavrianos, Eric Wolf--as well as the newer practitioners like Jerry Bentley, Patrick Manning, and Judith Zinsser.
Of the eleven sections, the first two deal with the history of the world history survey and its rivalry with Western civilization. Several sections cover the different approaches to world history: the early practitioners' emphasis on isolated civilizations; the more recent stress on encounters between societies and the diffusion of ideas and technologies across cultural boundaries; the promise of gendered world history and the role of women; thematic and comparative approaches such as the history of migrations and diseases; and the histories of large regions covering several cultural areas, such as the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, or the Islamic world. Finally three sections--""Teaching Regions and Civilization in World Context,"" ""Periodizing World History,"" and ""Constructing World History Programs and Curricula""--offer practical [End Page 183] ideas for teachers of the world history survey"
Call Number: 907 Dun
Gran, Peter. Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760-1840. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998.
When Peter Gran published Islamic Roots of Capitalism. Egypt, 1760-1840 over 20 years ago, it caused something of a minor revolution among scholars interested in the historical evolution of the non-Western world. Gran's thesis -- that a capitalist take-off had been underway in Egypt of the late 18th century, and was aborted only by subsequent developments -- was hailed as "challenging the ethnocentric notion that modernist thought and a capitalist economy could only be transferred to the peripheral states through direct contact with the European centre."
Call Number: 962 Gra
Jones, Jacqueline. American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
"Contents: Part I: Insubordinates: servants and slaves in a militarized age. Places of labor's ""hard usage"" in the South before slavery -- Memory and misery: white servants and the origins of slavery in the South -- The work of insurrection: black and white labor in the eighteenth-century South -- ""Domestik enemies"": bound laborers in New England and the Middle Colonies, 1620-1776 -- The emergence of free labor, fettered in the North -- American work: a photo essay
Contents: Part II: Workers and overworkers: black and white labor in the era of slavery. Black and white hands in a slaveholders' republic, 1790-1860 -- The racial politics of Southern labor in peacetime and war, 1820-1870 -- White men ""in a tight place"": black poverty and black protest in the antebellum North -- White citizens and black denizens: workers in the North during the era of the Civil War.
Contents: Part III: The rise and decline of the racialized machine: technological and political change in the workplace. The modernization of prejudice: economic change and the social division of labor, 1870-1930 -- Can you see a tomorrow there? industrial transformation and Federal civil rights legislation, 1929-1978 -- Industrial devolution and the persistence of the ""race watch"" at the end of the twentieth century -- Families, fraternities, and sites of diversity: affirmative action in historical perspective."
Call Number: 331.6 Jon
Juliani, Richard N. Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians Before Mass Migration. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
This book describes the growth of Philadelphia's Italian-born population from several dozen in the late eighteenth century to over five hundred by 1870. During these years, Americans' attitudes towards new arrivals from Italy changed significantly, as did migrants' understanding of themselves.
Call Number: 974.8 Jul
Khater, Akram Fouad. Sources in the History of the Modern Middle East. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
A primary source reader providing first-hand accounts of the events described in Middle Eastern history survey texts. The text is organized into 10 chapters featuring chapter introductions and headnotes. The primary source documents cover the late 18th through the 20th centuries, exploring political, social, economic, and cultural history and infusing the volume with the voices of real people.
Call Number: 956.04 Kha
Landers, Jane. Black Society in Spanish Florida. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Contents: Precedents for Afro-Caribbean society in Florida -- The origins of a Florida sanctuary : Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose -- Transitions -- Black entrepreneurs and property-holders -- Black religious life -- The lives of Black women -- Slaves and the slave trade -- Crime and punishment -- Black military service -- Racial geopolitics and the demise of Spanish Florida.
Call Number: 975.9 Lan
MacLachlan, Colin M. El Gran Pueblo: A History of Greater Mexico. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004.
Humanistic in approach and based on contemporary research, this volume explores the experience of the Mexican people and their culture -- not the Mexican state or Mexican politics -- from 1810 to the present. It examines the national boundary not as a barrier, but as the setting of complex interactions resulting in the convergence of cultures; and, in so doing, reveals the Mexican experience not only in Mexico, but in what is today the southwestern U.S
Call Number: 972 Mac
Manning, Patrick. Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
The field of world history is growing in so many directions that it is time for a guidebook. Such a guide and critique can provide an overview for those entering the field and can sharpen the debates for those who will make key decisions on the direction of world history as an arena of teaching, research, and institution-building. For instance, will world history be a distinctive field of study for teachers, students, and specialized researchers? Or will it be linked closely with other social sciences and humanities in an interdisciplinary analysis of the global past and present? My recent book, Navigating World History, is an overview of world history that explores this type of question. The audience for the book includes researchers, teachers, and general readers. The researchers perusing this book may include professional historians writing monographs, graduate students getting ready for general exams, and advanced undergraduate students seeking to add to their knowledge and experience. The teachers among these groups may be preparing classes for high school or middle school classes, or for graduate or undergraduate students. One of their primary concerns is how to convey the lessons of world history in their classrooms. General readers seeking an introduction to world history may be students of national history exploring wider connections or scholars in fields such as economics or biology who seek to set their work in the context of change over time. --the author
Call Number: 907 Man
Manning, Patrick, ed. Slave Trades, 1500-1800: Globalization of Forced Labour. Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1996.
"Contents: The Mediterranean Islamic slave trade out of Africa : a tentative census / Ralph A. Austen -- The volume of the Atlantic slave trade : a synthesis / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Migrations of Africans to the Americas : the impact on Africans, Africa, and the new world / Patrick Manning -- The apprenticeship of colonization / Luiz Felipe de Alencastro -- From Indian to slave : forced native labour and colonial society in Sao Paulo during the seventeenth century / John M. Monteiro -- Sexual demography : the impact of the slave trade on family structure / John Thornton -- The African presence in Portuguese India / Ann M. Pescatello -- Black slaves and free blacks in Ottoman Cyprus, 1590- 1640 / Ronald C. Jennings -- Resistance to enslavement in West Africa / Richard Rathbone -- 'By farr the most profitable trade' : slave trading in British colonial North America / Steven Deyle -- A marginal institution on the margin of the Atlantic system : the Portuguese southern Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century / Joseph C. Miller -- La traite vers l'Ile de France / Jean-Michel Filliot -- Sex ratio, age and ethnicity in the Atlantic slave trade : data from French shipping and plantation records / David Geggus -- Slaves and slave traders in the Persian Gulf, 18th and 19th centuries : an assessment / Thomas M. Ricks -- Survival and resistance : slave women and coercive labour regimes in the British Caribbean, 1750 to 1838 / Barbara Bush -- The slave trade, sugar, and British economic growth, 1748-1776 / David Richardson -- The slaving capital of the world : Liverpool and national opinion in the age of abolition / Seymour Drescher. "
Call Number: 326 Man
McClellan, James E. Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
pt. 1--From ape to Alexander ----ch. 1.--Humankind emerges: tools and toolmakers ----ch. 2.--Reign of the farmer ----ch. 3.--Pharaohs and engineers ----ch. 4.--Greeks bearing gifts ----pt. 2.--Thinking and doing among the world's peoples ----ch. 5.--Enduring east ----ch. 6.--Middle kingdom ----ch. 7.--Indus, Ganges, and beyond ----ch. 8.--New worlds ----pt. 3.--Europe ----ch. 9.--Plows, stirrups, guns, and plagues ----ch. 10.--Copernicus incites a revolution ----ch. 11.--Crime and punishment of Galileo Galilei ----ch. 12.--"God said, 'Let Newton be!'" ----pt. 4.--Brave new world ----ch. 13.--Industrial revolution ----ch. 14.--Road to modern science: pure and applied ----ch. 15.--Life itself ----ch. 16.--Toolmakers take command ----ch. 17.--New Aristotelians ----ch. 18.--Applied science and technology today.
Call Number: 509 Mcc
Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Royal Art of Benin: A Resource for Educators. New York: The Metropolitan Museum, 1994.
"The works of art shown in the slides and the four-color poster are from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The packet includes text for teachers and students, four-panel discovery poster, family gallery guide, four-color poster, and twenty 35mm slides."
Call Number: 700.7 Met
Namias, June, ed. First Generation: In the Words of Twentieth-Century American Immigrants. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Through sensitive interviews with over thirty first- and second-generation immigrants, Namias probes the issues that have pushed and pulled immigrants to American shores over the past century.
Call Number: 304.8 Nam
Pacey, Arnold. Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.
In this very different book,, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization."
Call Number: 509 Pac
Palmer, Colin, ed. The Worlds of Unfree Labour: From Indentured Servitude to Slavery. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, Variorum, 1998.
"Contents: The Iberian roots of American racist thought / James H. Sweet -- The origins debate : slavery and racism in seventeenth-century Virginia / Alden T. Vaughan -- The causes of slavery or serfdom / Evsey D. Domar -- The Old World background to European colonial slavery / Robin Blackburn -- The persistence of Indian slavery and encomienda in the northeast of colonial Mexico, 1577-1723 / Jose Cuello -- ""Old suffering with the Taxco tribute"": involuntary mine labour and indigenous society in central New Spain / Robert S. Haskett -- Slave control and slave resistance in colonial Minas Gerais, 1700-1750 / Julio Pinto Vallejos -- From servants to slaves : the transformations of the Chesapeake labour system / Russell R. Menard -- African slavery and other forms of social oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the context of the Atlantic slave-trade / Walter Rodney -- Slaves and society in western Africa, c. 1445-c. 1700 / J.D. Fage -- Agricultural slavery in the northern colonies and in classical Athens / Vincent J. Rosivach -- Black women's work and the evolution of plantation society in Virginia / Carole Shammas -- From Creole to African : Atlantic Creoles and the origins of African-American society in mainland North America / Ira Berlin -- Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose : a free black town in Spanish colonial Florida / Jane Landers. ol"
Call Number: 306.3 Pal
Penna, Anthony N. Nature's Bounty: Historical and Modern Environmental Perspectives. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
Focuses on four main environmental categories--land, wildlife, water, and air--discussing each from the 17th century to the present. He explores the destruction of America's forests and the efforts of the conservation movements to protect these lands, as well as the conflicts within those movements concerning different ideas about forests and conservation.
Call Number: 333.7 Pen
Richards, J. F. The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Explores four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 c.e.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems of energy scarcity. The Unending Frontier considers each of these trends in a series of case studies, sometimes of a particular place, such as Tokugawa Japan and early modern England and China, sometimes of a particular activity, such as the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic. Throughout, Richards shows how humans--whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes--altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.
Call Number: 304.2 Ric
Royster, Charles. The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
The swamp featured in this book is a vast marshy region in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. In 1763, a small group of investors including George Washington purchased a huge chunk of this terrain. With the help of slave labor, they hoped to drain parts of the land to make room for farms for tobacco and other crops. They also planned to sell timber and wood shingles from the area's dense forests and to profit from roads and canals built through the land to transport commerce. The Dismal Swamp Company was largely a failure, not turning any profits until a decade after Washington's death. More than tracing the unhappy history of one business enterprise, this impressively annotated book by distinguished historian Royster (Louisiana State Univ.) provides a fascinating panorama of colorful characters (including numerous shady entrepreneurs), interesting glimpses into master-slave relations, and expert analyses of both American and British economic developments.
Call Number: 975.5 Roy
Russo, David J. American History from a Global Perspective: An Interpretation. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2000.
A survey of American history that analyzes life throughout the history of the United States by looking at it as other nations and cultures have seen us, far beyond just the Anglo-Saxon or English-speaking world. It is divided into six principal parts: 1) a prologue on the indigenous peoples and early colonization of the Americas; 2) American politics and its development; 3) American geography and economy, and how it has developed according to what is happening globally; 4) American society and its structure, development, and change as it has undergone constant impact from world events; 5) American culture and how it is interrelated closely in scientific as well as social arenas with developments in Europe; and 6) American communities and what Americans see as their unique identity and spirit of nationalism.
Call Number: 973.07 Rus
Sanneh, Lamin O. Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
"Contents: The historical significance of Olaudah Equiano -- Antislavery and black loyalists in the American Revolution -- The black poor in London -- The Sierra Leone Resettlement Plan -- Antislavery and early colonization in America -- Thomas Peters: moving antislavery to Africa -- Freedom and the evangelical convergence -- Upsetting the natural order -- New light religion: pushing at the boundaries -- Antislavery and antistructure -- David George -- Moses Wilkinson -- The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion -- Paul Cuffee -- The voluntarist impulse -- Christianity and antinomianism -- Sir Charles MacCarthy: Christendom revisited -- Recaptives and. Contents: the new society -- The example of Samuel Ajayi Crowther -- The strange career of John Ezzidio -- Change in the old order -- Recaptives and the new middle class: brokers or collaborators? -- Thomas Jefferson Bowen and the manifest middle class -- Crowther and the Niger expedition -- The Niger mission resumed -- Antislavery and its new friends -- The native pastorate and its nemesis -- Martin Delany: anatomy of a cause -- Debacle -- Reaction and resistance -- Colonization sentiments -- Commercial motives: purse and principle -- The humanitarian motive and the evangelical impulse -- Colonization without empire: America's spiritual kingdom -- Colonization before antislavery: mission of inquiry -- African resettlement: fact and fiction -- The founding of Liberia: privatization of public responsibility -- Lott Carey and Liberia -- Expansion and exclusion -- Black ideology."
Call Number: 966 San
Tames, Richard. The World of Islam. Amawalk, NY: Jackdaw Publications, 1996.
"A study and teaching kit, containing several well-chosen primary documents. Reveals thirteen centuries of achievement in thought and action from Morocco to the Philippines, from Dar-es-Salaam to Samarkand by early scholars and scientists. Describes and illustrates the main features of Islamic art, science, architecture and the written word and sets them against the background of Islamic history. b"
Call Number: 297 Wor
Tucker, Judith E. Gender and Islamic History. Washington, DC: American Historical Association, 1993.
In this overview of gender within the world of Islam, the debate regarding the influence of gender in the study of Islam and the influence of Islam in the study of gender is explored. Also discussed are the problems of scarce source material on ordinary people in the Middle East's early history, the development in the ruling classes of the harim, and the seclusion of women.
Call Number: 305.48 Tuc
Watts, Sheldon J. Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Call Number: 616 Wat
Religious Empires as a Way of State Building and Justified Injustices
Theodora Abdur-Rahim, Hyde Park High School
This lesson looks at Islamic empires during the thirteenth through seventeenth centuries. Focus is on emperors and methods of rule in the Ottoman and Mughal empires. With short readings. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "A Thematic Approach to World History," for teachers of grades 9 and 10, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Perceptions and Cultural Conflict: The Aztecs and the Spaniards in 1519 A.D.
Peter Arthur & Kevin Riley, Salem High School
A world history lesson that examines cultural conflict during the Spanish conquest of Mexico, during the sixteenth century. A self-contained lesson with images, primary documents and secondary readings. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a week-long segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Long Term Changes in Man's Relationship to Time as an Ongoing Effect of the Industrial Revolution
Pamela E. Baafi, Teacher of Special Needs Students in the Learning Center, Burlington H.S.
A world history lesson for special needs high school students. Examines changing conceptions of time in different cultural milieus, as they transitioned from an agricultural to an industrial way of life. Contains student exercises. Created by a teacher participant in the 1999 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
The Politics of Fear: Human rights Abuses and the Struggle for Democracy in Latin America. Case Study: Chile
Kathleen M. Boynton
A world history lesson using poetry, songs and primary documents in a series of class activities. Its subject matter is the effect of human rights abuses in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship of 1973-1990, and the resistance movement during this period. Created by a teacher participant in the 1999 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
The Illustrative Power of Myth
Erin Carroll, Brooks School
This lesson asks students to read a variety of creation myths from civilizations around the world, ancient and modern. They then answer a series of questions. Includes myths, and classroom activities. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "A Thematic Approach to World History," for teachers of grades 9 and 10, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
European Renaissance
Barbara Dunn, Framingham High School
A world history lesson in which students read primary and secondary sources, make a map, use worksheets and in-class activities to learn about as pects of Renaissance Europe ca. 1300-1600. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 9," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a week-long segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Africa
Jessica Goonan
A world history lesson focusing on Africa, 500-1500 C.E. Looks at geography, early civilizations and kingdoms, trade routes, and cultural aspects. Day-by-day lesson plans involve producing maps, an almac, a trading simulation and primary sources. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a week-long segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
The Origins of the Cold War
Michael Heichman, Chelsea H.S.
Focuses on relations between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. during and after World War II, and how a "cold war" developed between the two countries. Uses short readings and primary documents to generate discussion and writing. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "A Thematic Approach to World History," for teachers of grades 9 and 10, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Arab Culture at a Glance: Teacher's Guide
Nadia Hidayet
Ann Arbor, Mich.: Hedaya Tech, 1999
An overview of Arab culture, customs, geography, holidays, and other information suitable for elementary school children. Includes lessons in writing Arabic letters and numbers. (ES)
Goha, His Son and the Donkey
Translated by Nadia Hidayet; illustrated by Kathleen Bishop
Ann Arbor, Mich.: Hedaya Tech, 1999
A translation of an Arab folktale, with illustrations
Look & Count through the Arab World: Numbers in Arabic & English
Nadia Hidayet
Ann Arbor, Mich.: Hedaya Tech, 1999
A lesson aimed at elementary-grade children which demonstrattes how to write the Arabic equivalents for Western numerals, using illustrrations of the numerals and phonetic spellings of the Arabic words for the numbers and for counted objects. The latter are chosen for their cultural relevance in the Arab world, and accompanied by explanatory information (ES)
Japan's Modernization
Lori Hodin, Swampscott H.S.
A world history lesson which analyzes Japan's political and industrial modernization and its interaction with the imperialist powers of the nineteenth century. Covers the period 1850-1908. Created by a teacher participant in the 1999 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
A Decade of Milestones: 1450-1460
Ken Hughes, Dracut Sr. H.S.
This lesson takes a journalistic approach focusing on events in Europe, China, the Middle East, and Latin America, and asks students to create a "newspaper" based on these events. Contains a strong geography component, includes maps, readings. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "A Thematic Approach to World History," for teachers of grades 9 and 10, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Urban Coffeehouses: Brewers of Controversy. A World History Unit for Secondary School Teachers
Deborah Smith Johnston
This unit examines history, world trade, culture and politics through the lens of the development of coffee as a commodity and a cultural phenomenon, focusing particularly on the urban coffeehouse in the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. Primary sources, exercises and daily lessons. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a week-long segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
The Power of Folktale
Margaret Kane and Ramon Finner, Medford High School
This unit provides extensive background reading analyzing the folktale in different cultures. Through in-class activities students gain a basic understanding of the cultural importance of folktales, then, on their own, write a research paper analyzing one folktale. Includes rubric for research paper. Created by teacher participants in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "A Thematic Approach to World History," for teachers of grades 9 and 10, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It provides in-class activities and homework and a research paper as a culminating activity of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Connections in World Religions: Abraham and the Covenant in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. An Instructional Unit for High School Students of World History and/or World Religions.
Timothy J. Kenslea
A world history lesson using readings from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Quran to look at how the idea of monotheism and a covenant with a god evolved in different religions and cultural traditions. Contains readings, worksheets, quizzes and assessments. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a week-long segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
The Age of Imperialism, 1850-1914: Interpreting Varied Perspectives
Maureen McCallion, Framingham H.S.
Using primary sources, students analyze short primary documents and illustrations (included) and answer a series of questions. Focuses mainly on British colonialism in Africa. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "A Thematic Approach to World History," for teachers of grades 9 and 10, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
The Peace to End All Peace: A Simulation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles
Matthew E. McKeon and William Carroll
This lesson is centered around an in-class role play activity about the treaty ending World War I. Includes worksheets, primary documents, and supplementary readings. Created by teacher participants in the 1999 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," for teachers in the Northeast Alliance of High Schools, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
The Creation of the Nation States of Germany, Italy, & Japan
Carol T. Mitchell, Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School
Boston, Mass.: Northeastern University, World History Center, 1999
A lesson created by a teacher participant in the 1999 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It examines the creation of nation-states in Germany and Italy in the late nineteenth century, and the Meiji Restoration in Japan during the same period. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course.
Alternative Enlightenment Salon
Carol Morse, Westford Academy
A world history lesson that teaches students about the people and ideas that fostered the Enlightenment, focusing on European and New World figures of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Role playing activities, assignments and readings included. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a week-long segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Vietnam: A Teacher's Guide
Thomas Murray, Foxboro H.S.
A world history leson plan which uses letters home from U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War Contains historical background on the war, transcripts of actual letters, and an excercise in which students write their own letters. Created by a teacher participant in the 1999 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Turning Points in Russian History
Marcia Okun, Newton South H.S.
A world history lesson focused on Russian History from ca. 1300-1800. Uses maps, readings, primary documents, and video to study geographic changes in Russia, as well as changes in the cities of St. Petersburg and Moscow. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a week-long segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Invented Traditions: A Comparison of Mexican Murals and Soviet Posters
Kristin Palmer
A world history lesson using Soviet posters and Mexican murals to analyze revolutionary and post-revolutionar society in those countries in the early twentieth century. Includes structured activities and worksheets, some based on included photocopies of artwork. Created by a teacher participant in the 1999 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
World War I: Propaganda and Alliances
Sonja Platt, Wakefield High School
A lesson in which students use knowledge gained in class to analyze wartime propaganda posters and make comparisons between different nations' use of same. Includes supplementary readings, worksheets, and illustrations for group and individual activities. Created by a teacher participant in the 1999 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," for teachers in the Northeast Alliance of High Schools, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Let the Games Begin
Kenneth Portnoy, Hamilton-Wenham Regional H.S.
A lesson focusing on ancient culture in Rome and China by way of studying spectator sporting events--the Roman games and a dragon boat race in China. Short historical readings, an in-class and written exercise. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "A Thematic Approach to World History," for teachers of grades 9 and 10, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Center/Periphery Conflict: USA-Cuba
Paul Salomon, Dorchester H.S.
A world history lesson focusing on conflict and conflict resolution based on study of relations between the United States and Cuba during the twentieth century. Created by a teacher participant in the 1999 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Doors and Windows to Humanity: Playing with Architecture
Lori Shaller
A world history lesson that looks at specific styles of architecture from the nineteenth century, examining different cultures through the creation and use of living structures. Contains worksheets, role plays, readings and bibliography. Created by a teacher participant in the 1999 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
God, Gold, and Glory, A Unit for World History: European Expansion and Exploration, 1400-1600
S. Simpson, Dorchester H.S.
This unit examines European exploitation of the Americas, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, looking at events and conditions in Europe and in the Americas. Includes work sheet activities on "explorers." Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a week-long segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Human Origins and Early Life
Thakur Singh, Full Circle H.S.
A world history lesson plan focusing on human evolution from prehistory to 1000 B.C.E. A secondary focus is the geography of Africa and how it affected early humans. The lesson incorporates readings, assignments and worksheets into daily lessons, and contains an annotated bibliography. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a week-long segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Griots and Minstrels: The Music of Mali and France in the High Middle Ages
Adam Steiner, Westborough H.S.
This lesson uses music to make cultural comparisons between Africa and Europe in the fourteenth century, and also with contemporary society. Unit contains lyrics, short readings, and extensive music bibliography. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "A Thematic Approach to World History," for teachers of grades 9 and 10, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
The Hajj: Unifying the Community
Ann Tassinari, Hamilton-Wenham Regional School
A lesson on the Hajj, or pilgrimage, which is one of the five pillars of Islam. Background readings examine the hajj in religious and historical context, then students answer questions based on a viewing of the film Malcolm X, directed by Spike Lee, and a brief reading from The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "A Thematic Approach to World History," for teachers of grades 9 and 10, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Human Rights: A Thematic Approach
Ron Toleos, Wenham Regional H.S.
A lesson dealing with human rights and democracy since 1945. It presents readings, primary documents, participatory excercises, and a worksheet. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "A Thematic Approach to World History," for teachers of grades 9 and 10, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Why Did So Many Native Americans Die Early after 1492?: A Lesson for 10th Grade World History
William Tucker, Lowell Catholic H.S.
This lesson uses short readings by historians to address the horrendous death rate among Native Americans after contact with Europeans in the fifteenth century. Issues of geography, epidemiology, politics, and culture are discussed. Question sheets keyed to the readings are provided. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "A Thematic Approach to World History," for teachers of grades 9 and 10, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
China the Beautiful: Literature and Culture
Donna Whiting, Plymouth North H.S.
A world history lesson plan looking at Chinese literature from a historical perspective Extensive excerpts of prose poetry and folktales are provided, and students use a timeline to match authors and their writing with historical events that may have influenced their lives. Examines the role of women, and also the consumption of food in Chinese society and culture.
Vietnam in World History: What the Presidents Should Have Known
Georgia Wingrove, Burlington H.S.
Offers historical background on Vietnam's nationalist movement through which it obtained independence from France, and analyzes events leading up to the American invasion of Vietnam, 1961-1975. Worksheets, exercises and primary documents focus on Vietnam in relation to the U.S. and the world. Created by a teacher participant in the 1999 workshop of the World History Center, "World History for Grade 10," supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a one-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course (HS)
Responsibility, Authority and Power: Rulers of the Early 16th Century
Leslie A. Yauckoes, Lowell H.S.
This unit explores the idea and reality of leadership, by examining world leaders of the early 1500s. Students read selections from Mencius and Machiavelli, among others. Exercises incorporate visual representations of world leaders. Created by a teacher participant in the 1998 workshop of the World History Center, "A Thematic Approach to World History," for teachers of grades 9 and 10, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education. It is intended as a five-day segment of the curriculum in a secondary world history course. (HS)
Videos & Multimedia
Various Artists. The Great Depression American Music in the 30's. New York: Columbia, 1993.
"Songs used in the television documentary ""The Great Depression.""
Contents: Brother, can you spare a dime? / Rudy Vallee (3:36) -- All of me / Louis Armstrong and his orchestra (2:53) -- It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) / Duke Ellington and his orchestra (2:54) -- Hungarian varsovienne / Henry Ford's Old Fashioned Dance Orchestra (3:09) -- Detroit moan / Victoria Spivey and The Chicago Four (2:54) -- We sure got hard times now / Barbecue Bob (3:25) -- Dark was the night (cold was the ground) / Blind Willie Johnson (3:20) -- I'm slappin' Seventh Avenue / Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra (2:33) -- Mean low blues / Blues Birdhead (James Simons) (3:13) -- Happy days are here again / Casa Loma Orchestra, conducted by Glen Gray (3:17) -- There's a new day comin' / Ted Lewis and his band (2:55) -- I surrender, dear / Red Norvo and his Swing Septet (3:05) -- Creole love call / Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra (4:10). Contents: Gloomy Sunday / Billie Holiday (3:13) -- Headin' for better times (Ted Lewis and his band) (2:57) -- NRA blues / Bill Cox (3:10) -- Are you makin' any money? / Chick Bullock and his Levee Loungers (2:50) -- He's in the ring (doin' the same old thing) / Memphis Minnie McCoy (3:07) -- With plenty of money and you / Hal Kemp and his orchestra (3:02) -- Dawn of a new day (official song of the New York World's Fair) / Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights (2:30) -- Whistle while you work / Artie Shaw and his New Music (2:39).rtie"
Call Number: CD 781 Gre
LaMouse-Smith, W. Bediako. Africa Interactive Maps. Baltimore: W. Bediako Lamouse-Smith and Joseph School, 1998.
CD-ROM uses simple menu buttons to direct the user to both information and test-questions on the climate, countries, ethnic groups, history, languages, natural resources, physical features, and other topics about the continent.
Call Number: CD 912 Afi
Asia Society. Journeys Along the Silk Roads [electronic resource]: Cross Cultural Encounter and Exchange. New York: Asia Society, 1999.
"A prototype curriculum integrating primary source texts with reproductions of artworks from the Silk Roads. As prototype develops materials will be added at www.askasia.org. "
Call Number: CD 950.1 Sil
Greenstar Television. Religions of the World. Wynnewood, PA: Schlessinger Media, 1998.
Series Titles: Ancient Religions of the Mediterranean; Buddhism; Hinduism; Shinto;Skeptics and Relligious Relativism; Religions of Small Societies
Narrated by Ben Kingsley. Information-packed programs employ sumptuous location footage, interviews with experts, and fast-paced graphics to detail the history and central beliefs of world religions, show the customs and traditions associated with each religion, and examine the religion's influence on world history. Grades 9 and up. VHS, Closed captioned. Color. 50 minutes each. Schlessinger.
Call Number: VID 292-294
Tajima, Renee, prod. Who Killed Vincent Chin? New York: Filmakers Library, 1988.
Documentary on racism in working-class America focuses on the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American, in a Detroit bar. Interweaves the murder with social concerns and questions about justice.
Call Number: VID 305.8951 Who
BBC/PBS. The People's Century. Boston: WGBH, 1998.
"This 26-part PBS television series, originally broadcast in 1998 and 1999, explores the history of the century through the eyes of the ordinary men and women who participated in the great events of the twentieth century. In between film footage and narrative they reflect at length on their own place in history. Takes an extremely broad international perspective, though sometimes disproportionately weighted toward U.S. and British sources and events.
Titles held by Primary Source:
vol. 1--1900 Age of Hope
vol. 3--1917 Red Flag
vol. 4--1919 Lost Peace
vol. 5--1924 On The Line
vol. 6--1927 Great Escape
vol. 7--1929 Breadline
vol. 8--1930 Sporting Fever
vol. 9--1933 Master Race
vol. 10--1939 Total War
vol. 11--1945 Brave New World
vol. 12--1945 Fallout
vol. 20--1965 Great Leap
Call Number: VID 909.82 v 1-20
Teno, Jean Marie, prod., dir. Afrique, Je Te Plumerai: [Africa, I will fleece you]. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1992.
An overview of 100 years of cultural imperialism in Africa. Director Jean-Marie Teno uses Cameroon, the only African country colonized by three European powers, for a case study of the devastation of traditional African societies by imposed colonial cultures. This film will make the cultural and intellectual conflicts of present-day Africa easier to understand.
Call Number: VID 960 Afr
Yorkshire Television/Channel 4. Benin: An African Kingdom. Part 2. Emotan and the Fugitive Prince. Princeton: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1994. VHS, 15 mins.
Oral history of Benin's revered warrior-king, Oba Ewuare, told through dance, music and mime. Emotan is the old woman who helps the Oba claim his kingdom after being banished from his homeland.
Call Number: VID 960 Ben pt.2
Yorkshire Television/Channel 5. Benin: An African Kingdom. Part 2. Past and Present Trader's, the City, and Men from Over the Sea. Princeton: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1994. VHS, 15 mins.
There is still a king or Oba of Benin today, and he still dispenses justice to his people. He lives in a very traditional world but has received a British university eduction. Contrasts like these are commonplace in modern Nigeria; the children shop in the tumult of a traditional market and go to a supermarket to buy plastic toys made in China. Overseas trade is not new to Benin; it was taking place long before the white man arrived.
Call Number: VID 960 Ben pt.3
Achkar, David, prod., dir. Allah Tantou, a la Grace de Dieu: [Allah Tantou, God's will be done]. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1991. VHS, 62 mins.
Through home movies, old newsreels, letters and fictional reconstruction of imprisonment, this film examines the life of the filmmaker's father, a diplomat under the Sekou Toure regime, who later disappeared into the Guinean gulag. Film reevaluates the turbulent decade of African independence and discusses its relevance to the new political order on the continent.
Call Number: VID 960.3 All
Peck, Raoul, dir. Lumumba, la Mort du Prophete: Lumumba, the death of the prophet. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1992. VHS, 70 mins.
Reexamines the independence struggle in the Belgian Congo and its leader, Patrice Lumumba. This multi-award-winning film recounts Lumumba's tragic 200 day rule culminating with his assassination. Combines archival documentary footage of Lumumba with the memories of journalists who reported from the Congo.
Call Number: VID 967.5 Lum
Davidson, Basil, prod. Africa: The Story of a Continent. Part 4: Kings and Cities. Chicago: Distributed by Public Media, 1984. VHS, 57 mins.
Looks at Kano, Nigeria, an African kingdom where people continue to honor their ancient traditions and their king -- who rules from a 15th century palace.
Call Number: VID 960 Afr pt. 4
Primary Source Library
May 2005
