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World History Connected, Volume
15, no. 3, 2018–2019
Readers of
the Journal of World History may have
seen the special issue (28.4, December 2017) devoted to recent research on
gender and empire. World History Connected's October issue (15.3, 2018) features a
Forum—a curated set of several articles—devoted to the teaching of gender and
empire which brings that research into the classroom and is organized by Tracey
Rizzo, who spearheaded the JWH special issue. This issue also features pioneering research that the authors combine
with innovative teaching approaches. Michael Blanker's examination of the place of Labor in East African anti-colonialism in world
history is accompanied by appendices featuring a guide to resources on the
subject, including proven classroom ready-resources and materials as well as a
guide on how teachers can employ the archival documents he employed. Tiffany
Trimmer offers a "bottom up approach to world history that incorporates the
ground underneath our students' feet (wherever they may be)" by highlighting a
selected case-studies of a world historical process that can be used to link
their locality to other places and times in world history." She applies this
approach via case studies of local-global migration histories of communities in
La Crosse, Wisconsin, the Malay Peninsula, and Barbados to suggest how "the world
historian's goal of illustrating how the local and the global interact can be
brought home to where we teach." This
issue's book reviews address books ranging from Latin America to the Middle
East in world history, and from policing transnational protest to the
consideration of China as "the Water Kingdom."
The forthcoming
February issue of World History Connected features a Forum guest edited by David Northrup. It is devoted to the Atlantic World and will open
new visits for analysis and instruction. The June issue Forum, guest edited by
Scott Bailey, will be devoted to Film
and World History.
World
History Connected is a free on-line journal affiliated with the World
History Association and published by the University of Illinois Press (http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/). It is devoted to publishing both the finest in
research scholarship and the scholarship of teaching, connecting the two when
possible, but always seeking to reach all those interested in world
history. It currently serves 1.85
million visitors who navigate to at least two articles. It is now particularly interested in
developing Forums and publishing individual articles on the issues related to immigration, manga, and South Asia, as well as
publishing Forums (articles around a common theme), individual articles, and
book reviews on other topics of interest to world historians. Ideas and
submissions can be sent to the editor at mgilbert@hpu.edu.
Marc Jason Gilbert, Editor
Hawai'i Pacific University
Marc Jason Gilbert is Professor of History and National Endowment for the Humanities Endowed Chair in World History at Hawai'i Pacific University. He can be reached at mgilbert@hpu.edu. |
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