4 Steps to Integrating a Geographic Lens in World History

While globalization has been a relevant topic for years now, it’s not actually a new concept!  Globalization occurred in the ancient, medieval, early modern, and industrial ages.

Think back to a moment when you as a student sat in a social studies class and struggled to spit out a memorized date of an important event your teacher said would be integral to remember.

Cemeteries are trendy destinations.

Internet ads, YouTube videos, social media posts, blogs, emails, and TV infomercials feature questionable and downright dangerous health advice, treatments, and cures.

Etiquette comprises rules to follow and manners expected of a person in social or professional situations.

Labor Day commemorates the American worker on the first Monday in September.

Early in the school year, students often ask me, “why do I need a history class?” They go on to say they know why science, math, and English are taught, but they don’t know why they need to learn so many random dates and historical facts.

“If I am not for myself who is for me? And being for my own self, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?” – Hillel the Elder

“History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.