Archives

• Fall 2026

  Vol. 23 No. 1

  Vol. 23, no. 1 (Fall 2026) features a wide-ranging forum, Pirates & Piracy in World History, that explores pirates and piracy across regions, eras, and classrooms. From maritime Asia and early-modern China to Viking-age Scandinavia, Hawai‘i during the First World War, and the Atlantic world of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, contributors examine how piracy has been defined, remembered, contested, and taught. The issue also includes new articles on global urban history and history-education resources.

• Spring 2025

  Vol. 22 No. 1

  Vol. 22, no. 1 (Spring 2025) is organized around the Forum, “The Vietnam War, Then and Now,” which reassesses the conflict at its fiftieth anniversary through transnational, pedagogical, political, and media-history perspectives. Its contributions move beyond a narrowly U.S.-centered war narrative by addressing the Indochina Wars in world-history classrooms, antiwar feminist activism, Vietnamese higher education, nation-building and print culture, journalistic coverage, and digital teaching resources.

• Summer 2024

  Vol. 21 No. 2

  Vol. 21, no. 2 (Summer 2024) centers on the Forum, “Tools of the Trade: Methods and Sources for Teaching World History,” offering concrete models for making world-history instruction more archival, digital, experiential, and student-centered. Articles range across a Royal African Company soldier’s life, Greek warfare, Emma Willard’s visual chronology, Holocaust digital resources, simulations of Islamic trade, classroom games, and reflective learning. Together, this forum demonstrates how varied sources and activities can cultivate historical thinking and empathy. A companion article, “Conceptualizing World History,” broadens the issue’s methodological concerns by considering the field’s analytical foundations.

• Winter 2024

  Vol. 21 No. 1

  Looking Back, Moving Forward: Two Decades of World History Research and Pedagogy

  A retrospective issue of ten articles selected by members of the Advisory Board, Editorial Board, Editorial Staff, and Readers that showcases a small sampling of the exceptional scholarship that has made World History Connected a vital publication in World History.

• Fall 2023

  Vol. 20 No. 3

  The Forum section in the Fall 2023 issue (Vol. 20 No. 3) of World History Connected, "Why Teach World History," is a continuation of matters addressed in the Vol. 20.1 and Vol. 20.2, which explored recent retrograde changes in World History standards and local classroom curricula. It does so by examining why the field means so much to its practitioners and students alike. This issue also features individual articles that explore "animal diplomacy" and colonial violence in world history.

• Summer 2023

  Vol. 20 No. 2

  The Summer 2023 issue (Vol. 20 No. 2) of World History Connected features two Forums. The first focuses on "The American West in World History" and the second explores "Teaching History in Contentious Times."

• Winter 2023

  Vol. 20 No. 1

  The Winter 2023 issue (Vol. 20 No. 1) of World History Connected (https://journals.gmu.edu/whc) marks the journal’s 20^th anniversary of its effort to support and disseminate globally both archivally based research and the scholarship of teaching in the field of world history.

• Fall 2022

  Vol. 19 No. 3

  Vol. 19, no. 3 (Fall 2022) features the Forum “Oral History Informing World History,” which demonstrates how oral testimony can connect local lives and memories to global processes. Contributions use oral-history methods to teach the Cold War, transnational adoption, colonial youth movements, Iraqi Jewish identity, decolonization and development in Kenya, and applied oral-history practice, emphasizing students’ role in producing as well as interpreting historical knowledge. The issue also includes articles on Indian military healthcare during World War I and periodization through an Oaxacan church, along with a Dialogues in World History exchange on David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything.

• Summer 2022

  Vol. 19 No. 2

  Vol. 19 no. 2 has as its major focus “India in world history,” which figures in its four Forum articles, in its featured “Interview with a World Historian,” and in several of its individual articles and book reviews. Other articles and reviews are devoted to broader aspects of research and teaching world history.

• Winter 2022

  Vol. 19 No. 1

  Vol. 19, no. 1 (Winter 2022) features the Forum “Maritime Law and World History,” which treats the sea as a space shaped by multiple legal traditions, including Indigenous, Mediterranean, and Islamic approaches to maritime order. The Forum connects ships, sailors, port communities, sovereignty, commerce, and legal practice to show how maritime history can broaden world-history teaching beyond land-based and Eurocentric frameworks. Its contributions include Lincoln Paine’s pedagogical overview, “Something Rich and Strange": Maritime Law in World History, and an examination of Islamic maritime law in Mediterranean and Islamic contexts.

• Fall 2021

  Vol. 18 No. 3

  Vol. 18, no. 3 (Fall 2021) features the Forum “Empires,” which provides comparative and classroom-oriented approaches to understanding how imperial power operated through urban planning, cartography, commerce, corporate enterprise, cultural representation, and systems of inclusion and control. Ranging across the Philippines, Japan, Rome, Mughal India, the Ottoman Empire, trans-Roman–Deccani trade, East Africa, and British literary culture, the Forum emphasizes both imperial structures and the local actors who negotiated, adapted to, or resisted them. The issue also includes an interview with Trevor R. Getz and articles on rigorous comparative world-history teaching for tenth graders and the relationship between world history and future studies.

• Summer 2021

  Vol. 18 No. 2

  Vol. 18, no. 2 (Summer 2021) features the Forum “Ecology and the Environment,” which argues for placing environmental processes at the center of world history instruction rather than treating them as background conditions. The Forum pairs pedagogical reflection, including “The Case for Ecology and the Environment in World History Instruction” and a discussion of teaching modern world history amid climate anxiety, with case studies such as ecological imperialism and invasive tangantangan in an occupied tropical landscape. A special Earth Day 2021 feature further connects historical study to contemporary environmental responsibility and future-oriented teaching.

• Winter 2021

  Vol. 18 No. 1

  Vol. 18, no. 1 (Winter 2021) centers on the Forum “Updating the Role of Latin America and World History,” which argues for integrating Latin America more fully into global narratives of empire, migration, Indigenous history, culture, and exchange. Its contributors address teaching Latin America in global context, Brazil’s place in Atlantic and world history, Comcáac borderlands in Sonora, Jamaican food and cultural identity, and digital resources for instructors. Two additional articles expand the issue’s pedagogical and interpretive concerns by examining the absence of Africans in history textbooks and using the life of Jan Kozlowski to illuminate the Russian Revolution.

• Fall 2020

  Vol. 17 No. 3

  Vol. 17, no. 3 (Fall 2020) features the Forum “Southeast Asia in World History: Art, Ethnicity, Gender, Identity, Modernity, and Trade,” which positions the region as a dynamic center of exchange rather than a peripheral extension of larger Asian or colonial narratives. Its essays address maritime history, Islam and modernity, female Muslim rule, Chinese borderland polities, migration and economic change in Borneo, Bengali connections during the Melaka era, Vietnamese Francophone literature, and digital resources for teaching and research. Together, the Forum highlights borrowing and adaptation, religious and cultural diffusion, migration, and trade as essential frameworks for connecting Southeast Asian histories to world history.

• Summer 2020

  Vol. 17 No. 2

  Vol. 17, no. 2 (Summer 2020) opens with the Forum “Diffusion, Comparisons, and Periodization in the Pre-modern World,” which examines the concepts historians use to connect societies across time and space without flattening their differences. Its contributions consider the Axial Age through epic literature and interdisciplinary comparison, and ask how choices such as beginning a world history course in 1200 CE shape students’ understanding of historical change, connection, and chronology. The issue thus combines conceptual reflection with practical guidance for organizing and teaching the premodern world history survey.

• Winter 2020

  Vol. 17 No. 1

  Vol. 17, no. 1 (Winter 2020) features the Forum “Vikings in World History,” which uses Viking mobility, exchange, law, settlement, and encounters with other peoples to place Scandinavia within wider medieval and global networks. The Forum’s essays address teaching Vikings as connected world history actors, the Indigenous “other” in Viking exploration of Vínland, and the legacy of the ting in relation to justice, egalitarianism, and modern Scandinavian political culture. The issue also includes broader reflections on historical scale and method, including Tamara Shreiner’s call to use the historian’s “macroscope” to connect local and global processes.

• Fall 2019

  Vol. 16 No. 3

• Summer 2019

  Vol. 16 No. 2

• Winter 2019

  Vol. 16 No. 1

• Fall 2018

  Vol. 15 No. 3

• Summer 2018

  Vol. 15 No. 2

• Winter 2018

  Vol. 15 No. 1

• Fall 2017

  Vol. 14 No. 3

• Summer 2017

  Vol. 14 No. 2

• Winter 2017

  Vol. 14 No. 1