World History Class with Mr. Lutz

The Setting: The year was 2019 and I had just wrapped up writing and developing a 33 episode series that summarized all that my students learned in their AP World History class readings that year, covering a total of approximately 10,000 years of history and took up over 15 hours of total listening time. 

The Outcome: It is now 2023 and I am creating a new, much more compact, season of World History Class with Mr. Lutz that will tell a narrative about the major units and topics we’ll learn in this course, covering developments from 1200 to the present.

Welcome back to another season of World History Class with Mr. Lutz! Listen to find out a bit more about the podcast and how it can be used as a tool to begin to dig a bit deeper into our shared past. I hope you enjoy and find it useful!

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Our final episode is going to focus on the end of the Cold War and the process of globalization that followed. Aside from the emergence of a globalized economy and culture we’ll also discuss the issues the world has faced since the 1990s and some of the tragedies and triumphs that have emerged from this most recent period of world history.

Complicating the Narrative

Facing History and Ourselves: https://www.facinghistory.org/ 

Document in Focus

Recommendations

Greenpeace unveils protest poster during a Real Madrid press conference prior to a Champions League match.

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Today we take a look at what is known as Decolonization, meaning the end of empire all throughout the world. This episode is going to jump around throughout several different nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America but always keep a tight focus on the Key Concepts. It would be a good idea to visit my blog or check out the episode description because I will have the Key Concepts listed for you to check out so you can keep focus regarding what you should understand when all is said and done with this episode.

Complicating the Narrative:

Document in Focus

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It’s hard to believe that I put these two topics together, but here we are! We’ll dive into the causes and consequences of the most horrifying conflict and human history by studying the Second World War. This devastating event bleeds right into the rumblings of the Cold War, where the US and Soviet Union began to remember they actually despised themselves once Hitler was out of the picture. You’ll hopefully see how much our world continues to be shaped by both of these monumental events of the 20th century.

Complicating the Narrative

Stanford History Education Group Lesson on the Rape of Nanjing:

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The First World War turned much of the world upside down. This episode will look at the global fallout that lingered in the decades after the Great War. If you’re searching for an uplifting podcast episode, it might be wise to turn somewhere else!

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Recommmendations

BBC Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_VSixma864

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The podcast to end all podcasts on the War to end all wars. Tune in to find out why both of these are a lie!

Complicating the Narrative

Document in Focus

Katherine and I just returned last Sunday evening from Camp Humphreys “Somewhere in Virginia” where we helped nurse soldiers sick with the Influenza. We were there at the camp for ten days among some of the very worst cases and yet we did not contract it. We had intended staying much longer than we did, but the work was entirely too hard for us. We worked from seven in the morning until seven at night with only a short time for luncheon and dinner. Our chief duties were to give medicines to the patients, take temperatures, fix ice packs, feed them at “eating time,” rub their back or chest with camphorated sweet oil, make egg-noggs, and a whole string of other things that I can’t begin to name. Male orderlies carried the dead soldiers out on stretchers at the rate of two every three hours.

Repeated calls come from the Red Cross to do volunteer work right here in D.C. I volunteered again, but as yet I have not been called and am waiting. They are certainly desperate for nurses—even me can volunteer as a nurse in a camp or in Washington.

All the schools, churches, theaters, dancing halls, etc. are closed here also. There is a bill today in the Senate authorizing all the wartime government workers to stay home for the duration of the epidemic. It has not passed the House of Representatives yet, but I can’t help but hope it does.

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Gassed by John Singer Sargent, 1919

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This is the last episode in our unit studying 1750-1900 of World History Class with Mr. Lutz where we’ll tackle the Ottomans, Chinese, Japanese, and Russians as they adjust to the shifting trends of the modern era. Industrialization and imperialism has been the trend of the last two episodes and now we’ll have to see how these four non-western states respond to these major developments. This episode will have a regional focus so we’ll begin with the Ottomans, move on to the Chinese, attempt to compare these developments with the Japanese and Russia.

Resources from “Complicating the Narrative”

https://lebanesestudies.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2017/11/15/why-did-they-leave-reasons-for-early-lebanese-migration/ 

https://reimaginingmigration.org/pogroms-and-russian-jewish-immigrants/

https://www.lehigh.edu/~ineng/VirtualAmericana/chineseimmigrationact.html

http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Immigration/

Document in Focus

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/18797/1/Kwok_Dwight_TW_200911_MA_thesis.pdf

This comes from a Master’s Thesis written by Dwight Tat Wai Kwok at the University of Toronto. The translated text is in the thesis.

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https://artsandculture.google.com/

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So, haven’t we seen imperialism all year long in this class and now we are calling a particular chapter of study “imperialism?” What has changed? Why is this a thing? It is because we are no longer talking purely of domination solely through a military means. Imperialism takes the military form where one country physically dominates another, but it also takes an economic form where business interests from the imperial nation exploit the colonized lands and people without ever having to directly govern the territories from which they draw significant wealth. Colonialism still exists during this time but it doesn’t only involve settling your people in a foreign land. Now it also involves installing your political and economic institutions into this foreign land as well, so whether or not lots of your people are moving there, your colony is operating in a manner heavily influenced by your politicians and businessmen. We’ll tackle the motives to practice imperialism, the spread of imperialism, and the resistance to imperialism.

Complicating the Narrative

The Trouble with Empire by Antoinette Burton

Document(s) in Focus

“The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling

“The Black Man’s Burden” by Lulu Baxter Guy

Recommendation

White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

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https://ia801405.us.archive.org/27/items/27Imperialism/27%20Imperialism.mp3

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In today’s episode we tackle the Industrial Revolution. So up until this point in time in our class we have seen different areas of the world that possessed a successful economy. The prerequisites for these developed economies were a significant agricultural surplus that resulted in a highly specialized, and comparatively urban society. They also had something of a relatively developed infrastructure, usually involving canal systems, which allowed for the facilitation of agricultural produce and goods throughout the land. These economies also had more developed economic institutions that helped promote trade. So what comes to mind? China? Western Europe? India? The Americas? If you’re thinking as I would be, you are thinking “how could it not be China?” But, I’m sure you’re already aware, the Industrial Revolution is going to begin in Western Europe, so let’s figure out why.

Complicating the Narrative

Washington Post Article: “Why the Industrial Revolution didn’t happen in China”

BBC In Our Time: The Industrial Revolution

Document in Focus

Engels’ The Condition of the Working-Class in England (excerpt is on page 16 of the .pdf file)

The Great Exhibition (a.k.a. the Cyrstal Palace Exhbition) of 1851 that took place in London

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