Overview: In this lesson using resources from the MIT Visualizing Cultures website, students become globetrotters, planning and documenting their journey to Japan from several perspectives. Students ...

Just as cotton, and with it slavery, became key to the U.S. economy, it also moved to the center of the world economy and its most consequential transformations: the creation of a globally ...

Visualizing Japan in Modern World History was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with support from the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia at the Program for Teaching East ...

'This, I argue, is the beginning of the Age of Exploration, the Age of Discovery, and thereby, the start of the modern world.’ A new book by journalist and professor Howard French places Africa as the ...