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Here's a terrific podcast about the integration of the Americas into the global trade system between 1450 and 1750 from AP World History teacher, Mike Lutz. Mike reviews the Spanish and Portuguese in Latin and South America, the development of the silver trade, the rebellion of T�pac Amaru and the centrality of the Catholic Church. He also  has podcasts for each unit in AP World , which are organized by key concepts and includes links to some topics in the episode. For example,  he includes a link in the episode below to the image of the Virgin of Potosi and to an episode of the podcast, 15- Minute History and of Khan Academy, about the development of the silver trade in the Pacific. Check out part of Mike's playlist below and listen to the excellent episode below.

Here are some excellent resources for teaching the Haitian Revolution from Professor Julia Gaffield, author of Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution. Professor Gaffield explains how different stakeholders in revolutionary Haiti understood equality and liberty in the short video clip below.  In addition to the video,  you can explore Professor Gaffield's  website, Haiti and the Atlantic World, here . It includes links to both primary and secondary sources. And here's a link to a terrific essay about Jean-Jacques Dessalines in The Conversation called Meet Haiti�s founding father, whose black revolution was too radical for Thomas Jefferson. Professor

Studying the silver trade between 1450 and 1750. Here are four terrific resources. Three podcasts about silver and an awesome multimedia site about the Manila Galleon. 15 Minute History, a podcast from the University of Texas at Austin, discusses the trans-Pacific slave trade. Kristie Flannery, a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas, describes Manila in the 16th century as the 12th largest city in the world serving the Spanish as a source of wealth through tax of natives, as an ideal location for trade with China, and Manila was a great location for the Spanish to convert natives to Christianity. In another 15 Minute History Episode , Kristie Flannery discusses the Trans-Pacific silver trade and argues that it marks the beginning of globalization.  Footnoting History Podcast has a great episode  on the Potosi silver mine in the Andes mountains of modern-day Bolivia. The China Ship, from the South China Morning Post, is an awesome multimedia site all about ...

Recently, the AP World Twitter chat looked at resources for teaching the Cold War as a global war. We considered images, video clips, podcasts,  and even lesson ideas. On Top of the World has a terrific podcast in which the hosts discuss Odd Arne Wested's book called "The Cold War: A Global History." They offer some great ideas for teaching the Cold War through a more global lens.  The Atomic Heritage Foundation has a summary of proxy wars in Africa during the Cold War. They include the Congo Crisis, the Ogaden War, the Angolan War, and the Namibian War for Independence. AP World teacher Eric Beckman has a Cold War lesson  in which students look at several Cold War events from around the world, place them on a map, annotate them, and put them on a thermometer to show how hot the event was. Three videos provide clips that work well with the global nature of the Cold War.    PBS Freedom Now examines decolonization in Asia and Africa and the impact...

Here are two great resources for incorporating religion into your curriculum. One is an excellent podcast about religion called  The Classical Ideas Podcast  and the other is a terrific youtube channel about religion called  Religion for Breakfast . Classical Ideas Podcast Gregory J. Soden, a doctoral student in social studies education, hosts a podcast about religion. Some of his topics are ideal for the classroom.  For example, Episode 74 reviews the basic beliefs , practices, important people, and specific goals of the Sikh religion . His guests are two prominent Sikhs,  Dr. Harbaksh & Jasmine Sangha, and Dr. Chetan and Ranjana Hans. Another episode deals with Shintoism .   Eric Lancaster is Soden's guest.  He is an instructor of Japanese at the University of Missouri and an instructor of religious studies at Columbia College. Soden tackles Toaism in Episode 57 with Dr. Pablo Mendoza, Assistant to the President for Social Equity at Indiana Un...

T EACHING RELIGION IN WORLD HISTORY Part I: THE LIMITATIONS OF BELIEF Dr. Robert Strayer Earlier this year, Dr. Robert Strayer , author of the textbook , Ways of the World , wrote a fascinating two-part reflection on the AP World Facebook page about teaching religion in world history. With his permission, I am reposting his reflections below. Dr. Strayer offers some good advice to those of us who incorporate religion into our world history curriculum. For example, he reminds us that we must remain agnostic "about the validity of the "truth-claims" in world history." And in Part II, he notes the importance of showing how religion changes and evolves over time. The heart of religious life, it seems to me, involves human interaction with an assumed but invisible realm. At least until the European Enlightenment, the assumption that such a realm existed, that there is more than meets the eye, was pretty much universal, though expressed and experienced in a great variety ...

Here's the dated, but still very good, James Burke documentary, Science Revises the Heavens, from the series, The Day the Universe Changed. Burke examines the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton. Some parts are terrific for class. For example, Burke does a great job of explaining the heliocentric view of the universe.

Here's a terrific 10-minute clip from Shirvan Neftchi for the Caspian Report about the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Neftchi notes that there was no single catastrophic event that caused the Ottoman downfall.  He notes that the empire was falling apart from the inside for centuries. The Battle of Lepanto in 1571 and the Battle of Vienna in 1683 both weakened the empire. But the decline of the Ottoman empire was very gradual and, according to this report, began with Venetian traders who, along with other European traders, put so much pressure on Ottoman guilds that the government banned Europeans from buying strategic raw materials.  This led to a large black market which eventually corrupted the bureaucracy.