Please visit http://www.thewha.org/ and become a member! The WHA is the foremost organization for the promotion of world history through the encouragement of teaching, research, and publication.
It was founded in 1982 by a group of teachers and academics determined to address the needs and interests of what was then a newly emerging historical sub-discipline and teaching field. The new world history emerged out of the shift in higher and secondary education away from a sole emphasis on national and regional histories toward broader cross-cultural, comparative, and global approaches. By the 1980s, instructors who had been asked to create new courses in this field, as well as scholars who had already begun laying its theoretical groundwork, came together in founding a new type of professional association, one that united the schools and the universities, teaching with research. Since then, the WHA has grown four-fold, has garnered accolades for its award winning Journal of World History, and has played a seminal role in shaping the field in the U.S. and around the world. Important for American secondary education, WHA members have been instrumental in establishing standards for World History teaching at the national and state levels as well as designing the AP World History course. At present, although its membership is still predominantly North American, the WHA is represented in over 35 countries and has an affiliate relationship with world history societies in Europe and Australia. Most important, the WHA brings together university professors, college and community college instructors, school teachers, graduate students, and independent scholars in a collegial camaraderie rarely found in more narrowly focused academic and professional societies. Still motivated by a larger sense of mission in preparing students and the public for an interdependent world, the WHA has been unique in bridging the gap between secondary and post-secondary educators.
Mission: The WHA supports and works to advance scholarship and teaching within a trans-national, trans-regional, and trans-cultural perspective. Through the researchers, teachers, students, independent scholars, and authors who are its members, the WHA fosters historical analysis undertaken not from the viewpoint of nation-states, discrete regions, or particular cultures, but from that of the human community. To this end, the WHA supports four different media for the dissemination of the most up-to-date scholarship and pedagogical advances in the field and sponsors annual public forums for the exchange and discussion of changing approaches to the study and teaching of world history at all levels. Moreover, as a founding member of the international Network of Global and World History Organizations (NOGWHISTO), which was admitted to full membership in the Comité International des Sciences Historiques (CISH) on 22 August 2010, it works with other associations across the globe to foster support for research and teaching in world history.
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The WHA will be at the American Historical Association's 2022 annual meeting from January 6-9 in New Orleans! The WHA always has a presence at the AHA Meeting, most significantly with panels on World History, which we co-sponsor. Please send your proposed session to us for consideration.
Since the AHA deadline is February 15, please send us your proposals by February 10 at [email protected]. We will respond quickly!
The World History Bulletin is calling for submissions of quality essays, lesson plans, and classroom activities for its spring 2021 issue! This issue focuses on “the Ottoman Empire Since the Time of Kanunî Sultan Süleyman,” and will be guest edited by Djene Rhys Bajalan at Missouri State University. Interested parties can direct inquiries or submissions to Micheal Tarver, WHB Editor-in-Chief, by February 15, 2021 at [email protected].
Last call for WHA Bentley Book Prize submissions! All submissions for the WHA Bentley Book Prize are due on Monday, February 1. The WHA Bentley Book Prize was created in 1999 to reward significant contributions to the field of world history and the World History Association. Authors, publishers, WHA members, or other interested parties may nominate books published during a calendar year. Please note that only books published in the immediately preceding calendar year are eligible (e.g., only books published in 2020 are eligible for the 2021 prize). For more information, please visit our website: https://www.thewha.org/awards/bentley-book-prize/
We are extending the Call for Papers deadline for our 2021 WHA Conference: Health, Globally. Papers will now be due on 15 February! In addition, if you had registered for our 2020 Conference in Utah and would like your paper to be rolled over, please contact us at [email protected].
For more information on our conference, please visit the conference page on our website: https://www.thewha.org/conferences/2021-wha-conference-health-globally/
The WHA will have a presence at the American Historical Association's 2022 annual meeting from January 6-9 in New Orleans! The WHA would be happy to co-sponsor panels regarding world history topics, so please let us know if you have a proposed session.
Since the AHA deadline is February 15, send us your proposals by February 10 at [email protected]. We will respond quickly!
Registration is open for Baobab VII: "Rethinking the World History Survey: New Approaches!" Join colleagues from a range of institutions (public, private, community college), as we think about how to renew and invigorate the World History survey to make it meaningful and relevant to today’s students. In this session, we will examine ways to transform the world history survey beyond trade, states, and larger scale connections. After the initial presentations, participants will be asked to share their own innovations and practices in reinvigorating the survey.
This session will be held on Friday, February 5 at 12:00 pm-1:30 pm PST/3:00 pm-4:30 pm EST. Register now at: https://www.thewha.org/conferences/under-the-baobab/
Happy Tuesday everybody! Submissions are open for the 2021 WHA Conference: Health, Globally. To insure the health and safety of conference registrants, this conference will be held online from July 5 to July 11, 2021.
The WHA invites teachers, scholars, and activists to reflect broadly on the many historical meanings of health, to both include and transcend bodily and biomedical applications of the term. Global health is a particularly important theme in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but we also accept papers relating to last years' cancelled theme, "Sustainability + Preservation" and other world history-related projects. Sessions will not run continuously, but will be scheduled so some live content is optimal in a variety of time zones.
If you proposed an accepted paper for 2020, email us to rollover for this year at [email protected].
To propose a new paper, panel, roundtable, workshop, or other session, please submit your proposal by February 1, 2021 via the link below:
https://www.thewha.org/2021-wha-conference-health-globally/
Now announcing, Baobab VII: "Rethinking the World History Survey: New Approaches!" Join colleagues from a range of institutions (public, private, community college), as we think about how to renew and invigorate the World History survey to make it meaningful and relevant to today’s students. The scholar-teachers on this roundtable discuss how to infuse perspectives from postcolonial history, urban history, Big History, local history and migration studies into world history survey classes, as well as how best to assess students in the survey. After the initial presentations, participants will be asked to share their own innovations and practices in reinvigorating the survey.
This session will be held on Friday, February 5 at 12:00 pm-1:30 pm PST/3:00 pm-4:30 pm EST. Register now at: https://www.thewha.org/conferences/under-the-baobab/
Submissions for the WHA Bentley Book Prize are due by February 1st! The WHA Bentley Book Prize was created in 1999 and was renamed in memory of Jerry H. Bentley and his significant contributions to the field of world history and the World History Association. Authors, publishers, WHA members, or other interested parties may nominate books published during a calendar year. Please note that only books published in the immediately preceding calendar year are eligible (e.g., only books published in 2020 are eligible for the 2021 prize). For more information, please visit our website: https://www.thewha.org/awards/bentley-book-prize/
To start the new year, we remind World History Association members & friends of our 2021 online conference: Health, Globally.
The WHA invites teachers, scholars, and activists to reflect broadly on the many possible meanings of health, to both include and transcend bodily and biomedical applications of the term in order to consider the health of our world and the history of our planet that brings us to our online conference July 5–11, 2021. Sessions will not run continuously, but will be scheduled so some live content is optimal in a variety of time zones.
If you proposed an accepted paper for 2020, email us to rollover for this year at [email protected].
To propose a new paper, panel, roundtable, workshop, or other session, please submit your proposal by February 1, 2021 via the link below:
https://www.thewha.org/2021-wha-conference-health-globally/
Wishing WHA members a joyous holiday season, a well-deserved break and great optimism for 2021. Our office will be closed December 24 thru January 3, and we look forward to connecting with you again during January as we continue to plan for our online 2021 conference.
For members and friends still interested in year-end giving options, and to view the advancement priorities of our association, go to:
https://www.thewha.org/support/giving-2020/
The WHA is pleased to announce our 2021 online conference: Healthy, Globally.
What are the metrics and meanings that describe health: for individuals, communities, institutions, governments, economies, cultures, ecosystems, epistemologies, or philosophies? The WHA invites teachers, scholars, and activists to reflect broadly on the many possible meanings of health, to both include and transcend bodily and biomedical applications of the term in order to consider the health of our world and the history of our planet that brings us to a online conference July 5–11, 2021. Sessions will not run continuously, and will be scheduled so that some live content is optimal in a variety of time zones.
To propose a paper, panel, roundtable, workshop, or other session, please submit your proposal by February 1, 2021 via the link below.
https://www.thewha.org/2021-wha-conference-health-globally/
This week for WHA initiatives, please consider giving to our scholarship fund, which allows us to support a variety of awards, including our: Phi Alpha Theta/World History Association Student Prize, World Historian Student Essay Competition, the Dissertation Prize, and the Bentley Book Prize, thereby recognizing outstanding scholarship at all levels in our field, from undergraduate research to newly published monographs.
This year, Jian Gao, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Texas-Austin, won the WHA-Phi Alpha Theta Best Gradudate Paper Prize for his work, "Political Mobilizations and Cultural Spaces: Transnational Chinese Associations in Mexico, 1922-1945."
Alan Strathern, an associate professor at Brasenose College, Oxford University, won our Jerry Bentley Book Prize for best book in World History with his monograph, "Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History."
For more on our 2020 winners, please visit: https://www.thewha.org/2020-scholarly-award-winners/
For more on how to donate to the WHA, please visit our advancement page: https://www.thewha.org/support/giving-2020/
WHA giving continues this week. Any person or business donating in this 3-week window will be listed in the spring edition of the World History Bulletin Last week, we began with a successful Giving Tuesday with 20% of donations sent to the charity, Direct Relief.
This week, we highlight another advancement priority, the WHA Endowment. Gifts to the endowment help us sustain the long-term financial stability of the association. However, donors can give to any of the WHA priorities as you wish. For more information, please visit our advancement page: https://www.thewha.org/support/giving-2020/
Registration is now open as the WHA continues the Under the Baobab series. This month, Baobab VI is entitled "Comics, World History, and the Classroom," and it focuses on the opportunities and pitfalls of using comics in the World History classroom. During breakout sessions each room will deconstruct an example comic, exploring the pedagogical utility of the medium and considering the broader themes of discussion, like: the tension between historicity and formalism, what archival access looks like, and how language offers barriers and opportunities for our World classroom. This session will run on Wednesday, December 16, 7:00 pm EST/4:00 pm PST.
Go to: bit.ly/wha-baobab.
Today, Thursday, Dec. 3 @ 1 pm EST/10 am PST is the WHA Business Meeting. Please join us to learn about proposed changes to the Constitution and about the general state of the organization. A link was sent to all members via email on Dec. 2. We hope to see you all there!
WHA Giving Tuesday is today - Tuesday, December 1. Twenty percent of all donations given to the World History Association will be passed on to Direct Relief, an organization dedicated to "improving the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergency situations by mobilizing and providing essential medical resources needed for their care." This important non-profit scored a 100% on Charity Navigator! The remaining 80% goes to the WHA operating budget.
There are two links for WHA Giving Tuesday. For more information about Advancement priorities and a variety of ways to give, see our revamped Advancement page: https://www.thewha.org/support/giving-2020/. To donate through the secure WHA database, go to the donation option (upper left) on the landing page: https://bit.ly/3fWbuBa. Please note you will need your database username and password.
Any person or business donating in the 3-week window will be listed in the spring edition of the World History Bulletin. We are happy to accept donations via mail, but the university mail service has a longer delay time in 2020. Should you need assistance making a donation, email us at [email protected] or call the office number at 617-373-6818 and your call will be returned promptly.
Since last spring, the World History Association has partnered with Amazon Smile to enable a new way for members to donate to the organization. Amazon Smile donates 0.5% of your spending to the WHA when you shop through smile.amazon.com. After opening the webpage, simply enter the WHA as your chosen charity and confirm. Donations through smile.amazon.com will go directly into our operating budget and will help to support expenses such as our website and webmaster, publications, awards and conferences. To date, Amazon has donated more than $215 million to numerous charities.
We have already received numerous donations through Amazon Smile. Thank you to all who have already donated!
WHA Giving Tuesday is coming soon! On Tuesday, December 1, 20% of all donations given to the World History Association will be passed on to Direct Relief, an organization dedicated to "improving the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergency situations by mobilizing and providing essential medical resources needed for their care." This important non-profit scored a 100% on Charity Navigator!
The link for Giving Tuesday will be sent out to members on December 1. Giving Tuesday kicks off 3 weeks of opportunity to give to the WHA - with a different fund highlighted weekly. Moreover, any person donating in the 3 week window will be listed in the spring edition of the World History Bulletin.
Baobab VI is coming soon! "Comics, World History, and the Classroom!" This event will focus on the opportunities and pitfalls of using comics in the World History classroom. Taking a broad approach to what constitutes a “comic,” this discussion will lead off with brief examples from our panelists about how they’ve used comics in the classroom and the most common questions we face.
This session will be held on Wednesday, December 16 at 4:00 pm-5:30 pm PST/7:00 pm-8:30 pm EST. Registration is free for WHA members. Register now at: https://www.thewha.org/conferences/under-the-baobab/
COMING SOON: The New England Regional World History Association (NERWHA) is concerned about the lack of historical context whenever there is public discourse about race and racism. Racism represents core threads in the socio-cultural fabric of our world; as such, it is our obligation to continually learn about the history of racism and to share what we learn and how we teach with colleagues. With that objective in mind, on Saturday, November 14 from 11:00am to 12:30pm EST, NERWHA’s 2nd Workshop will be devoted to a discussion on ways to teach about race and racism. We invite you to join us in our workshop on racism! We encourage you to RSVP as soon as possible, given that this event will take place on Saturday. All participants can join free of charge here: https://netforum.avectra.com/eWeb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=WHA&WebCode=EventDetail&evt_key=2056082b-c228-49a5-b110-8a0bdf10fbeb&fbclid=IwAR3h6qsv7mQmUIUTwAfAqyKFQF0pqwsRfQOf6bsLpqB8_JtTjwWMf5Ab6bQ
Dear all WHA Members: Voting for the WHA Council continues to remain open until this coming Wednesday--November 11. We ask that all WHA members vote, even if you may be unfamiliar with the candidates. Please pay close attention to the bios of each candidate and what you see as priorities for the WHA. This year, there are three seats open on the WHA Council, as well as one for Treasurer. Per the WHA Constitution, two of the Council seats MUST be filled by high school teachers. If you have not received an email from EZ-Vote, or you cannot find your email, please let us know at [email protected]. Thank you in advance!
Now announcing, Baobab VI: "Comics, World History, and the Classroom!" This event will focus on the opportunities and pitfalls of using comics in the World History classroom. Taking a broad approach to what constitutes a “comic,” this discussion will lead off with brief examples from our panelists about how we’ve used comics in the classroom and the most common questions we face.
This session will be held on Wednesday, December 16 at 4:00 pm-5:30 pm PST/7:00 pm-8:30 pm EST. Register now at: https://www.thewha.org/conferences/under-the-baobab/
In times of apparent crisis, it is important to think closely about both the longevity of the human species and the manner in which humans have persevered over the millennia. In his new book, A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System, Patrick Manning brings these points to us with clarity. Relying on environmental, biological, cultural, and linguistic evidence, Manning emphasizes the importance of diversity and social institutions to the maintenance of humanity.
Find the book here: https://bit.ly/2JzoErN
Cambridge Core - Global History - A History of Humanity
The topic of career diversity has been a subject at WHA Conferences and will continue to be addressed by the association through sessions, website information and social media posts. An important additional source on the topic of career diversity is Katina L. Roger's new book, Putting the Humanities Ph.D. to Work, in which she probes both humanities career development outside of the academy and alternative career paths for those with humanities PhDs. Be sure to check it out!
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Hats off to our secondary school history educators during Teacher Appreciation Week. We applaud your readjustments in 2020. For those teachers who would like to become members retroactively or renew, start here: https://www.thewha.org/membership/join-or-renew-membership/ Then to our online form, and in our online store find offer for "Teacher Appreciation Week 2020" good for the next four days. In lieu of our live conference, more virtual educational opportunities coming this year, starting with our blog Pandem-Mondus: https://www.thewha.org/wha-blog/.
Plenary session to celebrate William McNeill’s Legacy.
Roger Beck is recognized as a Pioneer in World History
Introductions by WHA President Merry Wiesner-Hanks, welcome by the Provost of UWM, and recognition of Linda Black as a Pioneer in World History
Chef Pilcher takes us to the world of Mexican moles.
Chef Rebekah Pite demonstrates the Argentinian empanada
Chef Goucher cooks up crab callalou
Chef Rick Warner shows us how to make Chifa ceviche
Introduction to Xhibition Kitchen
WHA 2012 Conference Banquet Dinner Cam. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Pioneer in World History 2012 Awardee Ross Dunn acceptance speech. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Pioneer in World History 2012 awardee Michele Forman acceptance speech. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Upcoming Barcelona Symposium hosts Ruben Carrillo and Mariona Lloret on why they love these WHA conferences. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Sam Giordanengo on his strategy for picking which WHA panels to attend. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Jon Davidann on his favorite panels at the 2012 WHA conference. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Beth Montgomery from the DBQ Project on how the WHA has been unique in bridging the gap between secondary and post-secondary educators in a professional history association and the value that brings. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Hugo Hernandez comments on how the WHA conferences are are engaging, and easy to get to know so many people, especially for someone attending for the first time. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Hanne Cottyn on being a first time presenter at the 2012 WHA Conference. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Vera Parham on why her first time at the WHA conference has been a blast due to the inviting and welcoming nature of the WHA. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Rob Hardmond from Brooklyn Tech on why the WHA and its conferences are so valuable for secondary school teachers and why he has attended WHA conferences for a decade. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Maura Abrahamson and Michael Kasprowicz on the value of the Meet the Authors sessions at the 2012 WHA conference.Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Michele Forman share a main strength of the WHA. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Eileen Kim and Schuang Wen on the value for graduate students at the 2012 WHA conference. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Craig Lockard with an author's perspective on why the WHA conferences are important and beneficial. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Jonathan Reynolds playing the guitar at the 2012 WHA conference. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Jacob Tropp on the highlights of the 2012 WHA Conference. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
Laura Mitchell and Douglas Northrop share a light moment on their favorite part of the 2012 WHA Conference. Please visit www.thewha.org to become a member and register for the 2013 conference!
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