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  • Season 1: World History
    • Episode 1: The Ancient Era, or “Ain’t No River Valley Wide Enough”
    • Episode 2: The Classical Era, or “That Time Everyone Plagiarized Persia”
    • Episode 3: The Classical Era in the East, or “They Built a Great Wall and Made the Huns Pay For It!”
    • Episode 4: Medieval Europe, or “That Time Europe Lost Its Mind”
    • Episode 5: The Postclassical Era in the East, or “Yes We KHAN!”
    • Episode 6: Early Modern Era in the West, or “We Missed Two Whole Continents?!”
    • Episode 7: The Early Modern Era in the East, or “They Didn’t Get the Memo”
    • Episode 8: The Modern Era in the West, or “You Say You Want A Revolution?”
    • Episode 9: The Age of Imperialism, or “Allow me to ruin the Jungle Book for you”
    • Episode 10: The Modern Era in the East or, “Knock Knock. It’s the West.”
    • Episode 11: World War I or, “The War to Cause All Wars”
    • Episode 12: World War Two, or “Who was supposed to be watching Germany?!”
    • Episode 13: The Cold War or, “I Must Break You, WOLVERINES!”
    • Episode 114: The Cold War in Latin America, or “This is why they hate us there!”
    • Episode 115 Decolonization, or “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!”
    • Episode 116: 20th c. Middle East or, “Who knew religion was so important to people?!”
    • Episode 117: The World Today or, “Too Soon?”
  • Season 2: Historical Context
    • Episode 201: Russia, or “What the Helsinki?!”
    • Episode 202: History at the Movies or, “The Hungry Panther Games”
    • Episode 203: Sports and Protest or, “Martin, Malcolm, and Colin”
    • Episode 204: Immigration or, “Good fences make tense neighbors”
    • Episode 205: Indigenous Americans (pt. 1), or “Dang I wish I was an Inca”
    • Episode 206: Indigenous Americans (pt. 2) or “1491”
    • Episode 207: Voting or, “Sorry George”
    • Episode 208: Central American Migration or, “THE CARAVAN!”
    • Episode 209: Thanksgiving or, “The Squanto Treatment”
    • Episode 210: Political Gridlock or, “Do Something, Congress!”
    • Episode 211: North Korea or, “If you give a Kim a country, he’s gonna want some nukes”
    • Episode 212: Saudi Arabia or, “Jared and the Crown Prince sitting in a tree”
    • 213: 2019 Oscar Nominees or, “The Vice Favourite Green Panther Klansman from Bohemian Roma is Born”
    • 214: Brexit or, “Should Have Signed a Prenup”
    • 215: Game of Thrones or, “The George R.R. Martin Historical Plagiarism Tour”
    • 216: Puerto Rico or, “To Be or Not To Be… a State”
    • 217: Abortion or, “Tough Life Choices”
  • Season 3: U.S. History
    • US History Ep. 1: Colonial America or, “Who needs dancing when you have tobacco and the Bible?!”
    • US History Ep. 2: The American Revolution or, “We Spilled the Tea”
    • US History Ep. 3: The Early Republic or, “That Time We Invaded Canada!”
    • US History Ep. 4: Slavery or, “America’s Original Sin”
    • US History Ep. 5 Sectionalism or, “Manifest Destiny’s Child”
    • US History Ep. 6 The Civil War or, “Sorry I’m not Ken Burns!”
    • US History Ep. 7: The Postwar South or, “Reconstruction. Reconstruction!”
    • US History Ep. 8: The Gilded Age or, “Imagine Newsies… but no one’s dancing.”
    • US History Ep. 9: Imperialism or, “Just a spoonful of sugar helps imperialism go down…”
    • US History Ep. 10: The Progressive Era or, “No more thumbs in our meat, please!”
    • US History Ep. 11 The Women’s Era or, “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make It On This Podcast”
    • US History Ep. 12: World War I or, “Woodrow Wilson’s War”
    • U.S. History Episode 13 The Roaring 20s or, “Does any of this sound a little familiar?”
    • US History Ep. 14: The New Deal or, “Saving Mr. Banks!”
  • Professional Development
    • Distance Learning (#Coronavirusgate 2020)
    • “Teaching Current Events in the Era of Fake News”
      • BONUS Episode: SXSW EDU “Teaching in the Era of Fake News”
    • “Podcasting in the Classroom”
    • Current Events in the Classroom
  • Historical Silliness
    • “Zoom!” (A “Shoop” Parody)
    • “Lafayette!” Music Video
    • Hogwarts Sorting Hat: US Presidents
    • First Ladies in a Knife Fight
    • How much of world history can I relate to the Hunger Games? All of it.

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6 Hours in the Life of a Hybrid Teacher or, “Why I stress cried in my car this afternoon”

Full disclosure: I love teaching. I love my school. I love my kids. But this is insane. Are you curious why so many teachers are “complaining” in your news feed or looking at other career options? (Because, trust me, most of them are.) Teaching has always been a difficult job. My responsibilities have grown from …

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Podcast Season 1: World History Teaching World History

World History Ep. 1: The Ancient Era, or “Ain’t No River Valley Wide Enough”

Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Today we’re going back to the Ancient Era, or as I like to call it, “Ain’t No River Valley Wide Enough”. We’ll look at the Neolithic Revolution, what it takes to be civilized, and some high …

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Pop Culture Teaching World History

How much of world history can I relate to the Hunger Games? All of it.

One year I had a student keep track of every time I referenced the Hunger Games in my world history class. The tally was around 8 by the end of the second week of school. So… yeah. I’m definitely getting my money’s worth on that masters degree. Don’t believe me? How dare you, sir. How …

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Podcast Teaching World History

When you win wars, you get to name stuff

It’s so easy to study history and forget that these things actually happened. Like, George Washington woke up each morning, went to the bathroom, and put his underwear on before he walked out onto the battlefield. There’s actually a story that when he was crossing the Delaware in that seemingly tiny boat, there was a …

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Contemporary Issues Podcast Teaching World History

Welcome to everyone who slept through their high school social studies class

Every time I tell people that I’m a high school social studies teacher, after they give me a pitying look, I get the same response, “I wish I had paid more attention in high school!” Or sometimes, “I wish I could take your history class!” After hearing that hundreds of times it dawned on me …

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