Category: AP World History: Modern

  • How to Explain October 7 and Beyond to Students

    This is a poster presentation made at the National Council for Social Studies 2025 annual conference. It involves four panels showing a timeline starting in the late 19th century through 2025 with a focus on events that affected self-determination, democracy, and human rights (the theme of the 2025 annual conference). With the four panels, which…

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  • Timeline: The Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) & Establishment of Israeli Apartheid

    This is an extensive timeline starting in the late 19th century. It is an important timeline to consider as part of other materials since it highlights the less promoted, yet very important, history of Zionism – the history left out of textbooks and the media. It includes important aspects such as the Arab Revolt (1936-9),…

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  • How Israel Was Created

    A 15 minute video about the history of the creation of Israel starting in the late 19th century. The video covers the First Jewish Congress and the vision of a Jewish state. It also includes the British Mandate period and the UN partition plan timeframe.

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  • The Israel-Palestine Conflict: a Brief, Simple History

    A summary of the history of Israel/Palestine starting in the late 19th century. The video covers the British Mandate period and then growing violence between Jewish militias and ultimately Israel, and the Palestinians. This includes the occupation and the resulting intifadas.

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  • A historical timeline of Israel’s brutality towards Palestinians

    This 10 minute video covers the violence against Palestinians and not the violence against Israelis and therefore would be useful to show with another video as context. Where it is especially strong is in going through the long and sustained history of violence against Palestinians that is mostly overlooked by the US media and teaching…

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  • Letting Maps Tell the Story

    This 29 minute TXCHR video starts with maps of the 13th century BCE, includes maps of the Ottoman Empire that ruled the region for 400 years, then WW I maps related to negotiations between the British and Arabs. Then the video shows maps of population and land ownership through the early 1940s. Maps of partition…

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  • Using Maps to Analyze U.S. Middle East Policy

    This TXCHR provides four maps from 1945 to 2020 maps to explore US foreign policy relative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This lesson plan invites students to explore U.S. involvement in the conflict through a map-based analysis. It compares historical and contemporary U.S. proposals, beginning with the 1947 UN Partition Plan and ending with the 2020…

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  • The Nakba

    This video explains the story of the Nakba with a testimonial. It lays out the history and facts of the last 100 years in Israel-Palestine. This is a useful video to present as an introduction for students or for educators to quickly get an understanding of the background to the current situation and to understand…

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  • Deconstructing Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians

    Learn to identify, explain, and campaign against Israel’s apartheid policies toward Palestinians in this 90-minute Amnesty course, with certification included. This is a very good resource for an educator who feels like they lack the knowledgethey need to convey the conflict through apartheid. Teachers could ask their administrations about possible professional development hours for this…

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  • Conquer and Divide: Interactive Project

    Explore Israel’s fragmentation of Palestinian space since 1967 through an interactive timeline showing policies dividing the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This is for background information and historical context – there is no formal lesson. This is an effective lesson in a TAG classroom and could be used for a project for a specialized course.…

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