Author: JesseSpohnholz

We are happy to announce that Dr. Brenna Miler has started as the new Assistant Director of the H/21 project. Miller is also a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Roots of Contemporary Issues Program at Washington State University. In 2018, she earned her PhD from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on the history…

The Assistant Director of History for the 21st Century will support the Director in the production of the MREs. Their central responsibilities will include the design of digital MREs, the project’s website, and interactive portal(s) for faculty; liaising with authors (who will also be practicing historians) to ensure conformity of skills, language, and depth of…

For the first phase of this project (2021–2023), H/21 will sponsor the production of free, digitally available teaching units (called Modules Ready to Educate, or MREs) that teach both skills and historical content suitable for introductory world history courses. These modules will: be designed for college students in General Education courses. engage students in active…

World History Association is the new institutional home for the History for the 21st Century (:”H/21″) project. Jesse Spohnholz (Washington State University) will remain the director, and the board will continue to consist of Trevor Getz (SFSU), Molly Warsh (University of Pittsburgh), Urmi Willougby (Pitzer College), Steve Harris (SFSU), and now also Shane Carter (Orias…

The H/21 initiative launched in August 2019 with a meeting at SFSU of leading history educators (including veterans of significant world history textbook projects) from around the country. Bob Bain of the University of Michigan delivered the keynote address, which reviewed the long history of incomplete efforts at broad curricular reform and challenged us to…