World History/Global Studies Archives

When South African Apartheid Was Overthrown: Lessons for the Movement for Black Lives Today

In this online class, Gerald Lenoir and Jesse Hagopian discussed the history of the anti-Apartheid (SA) movement and how it is relevant to students' lives and the movement for Black lives today.

War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine

Book — Non-fiction. By Norman Solomon. 2023. 240 pages.
Too often, our curriculum “makes war invisible.” Too often, the ravages of U.S. militarism go unexamined in our classes. This fact-filled book insists: Teach about this; people’s lives depend on it.

Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

Book — Non-fiction. By Jason Stanley. 2026. 272 pages.
A global call to action for those who wish to preserve democracy — in the United States and abroad — before it is too late.

Jan. 27, 1975: Church Committee Formed

The Church Committee was an investigation into the covert operations of the U.S. intelligence community, including the FBI, CIA, and NSA, and their attacks on subversives and “enemies of the state.”

Sept. 20, 2020: Protests Following New Agriculture Laws in India

Protests erupted across India as the government deregulated Indian agriculture, endangering the livelihoods of farmers by commercializing an industry that employs over half the population.

Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush

Picture book. By Patrice Lawrence. Illustrated by Camilla Sucre. 2025. 40 pp.
The book's young protagonist learns from her beloved grandmother about the Windrush generation in England.

Remember Us

Short Film. By Pablo Leon. 2024. 14 minutes.
In this animated historical fiction film, a journalist documents the experiences of three people who lived through the tragic 12-year-long Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s.

May 15, 1948: The Palestinian Nakba

The Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) was the violent and systemic expulsion of nearly 75 percent of all Palestinians from their homes and homeland by Zionist militias and the new Israeli army in the years surrounding the establishmen of Israel in May 1948.

Jan. 16, 1976: Lucas Plan Calls for Socially Useful Work

Factory workers at the Lucas Aerospace Corporation in Birmingham, England — facing defense cuts and increasing layoffs — came up with a plan to save not only their jobs, but their livelihoods and the company itself.

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

Book — Non-fiction. By Molly Crabapple. 2026. 480 pages.
The story of the Jewish Labor Bund, a secular, socialist, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist organization that fought for dignity and equality, not in an imagined homeland in Palestine but “here where we live.”