World History

Discover the rich documentary heritage of Korea and its global connections since 1200. Review copies of important documents from Korean history and receive practical classroom applications for World History classes.

Travel and cook with us along the culinary pathways of the pre-modern Islamic World and beyond, exploring trade and cultural exchange.

Enhance social justice and Holocaust education through analysis of the writings of teenage diarists, and evaluate the meaning their words can have for contemporary global issues.

Engage students with compelling questions that embed world history within a geographic lens. Strategies will encourage students to develop their own questions to promote rigor and critical thinking.

Explore new resources to help students learn about the Holocaust. Analyze art work, drawn in the ghettos and by survivors, to discern their message. Examine songs and poems.

How far would you go for what you knew was right? This question and others can be answered by using inquiry into righteous gentiles and their role in saving thousands.

Explore the history of the Armenian Genocide and how it became the archetype for other genocides. Gain an understanding of the Ten Stages of Genocide.

Explore economic decision making in the context of world history. Discover how to highlight economic thinking skills in relation to topics such as trade networks, exploration, industrialization, capitalism, and totalitarianism.

Ancient societies in Greece, Rome, Sumer, and India can each teach students about citizenship and activism. Students can make connections to the present and learn how to make change.

Discover how you can use the Harkness method of learning and discussion pioneered at Phillips-Exeter Academy to cultivate hireable habits within your social studies students.