In this essay, we turn to oral history to ask in what ways a pedagogy informed by oral history methods might contribute to a more epistemologically open and diverse global history. We…
In the Global History Lab (GHL), Princeton University students can study the war in Ukraine, the Taliban’s recent takeover of Afghanistan and mass displacement in East Africa from people who have experienced those events firsthand. This one-of-a-kind online course brings together learners from all over the world with the goal of…
By Alexandra Jones for the the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)
Through sustained partnerships, universities can share best practice and find new approaches to support refugee students.
In times of crisis it is important to develop a mosaic of responses and include, in the great liberal education tradition, a relentless focus on students’ well-being and safe access to educational opportunities. Bard College is doing just that with its twenty-five-year global engagement with liberal arts and sciences, and the January 2020…
How can migrants speak? And what can listening to them reveal about the system of national sovereignty, the persistence of legal exclusion, and the longing for home?
This is the first installment of Migrant Lives, Global Stories, a five-part series on the global migrant crisis presented in partnership with the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University.
In a post on The Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) blog, artist, social activist and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation Forest Whitaker praises the organization's partnership with Princeton…
Since 2012, Jeremy Adelman, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University, has taught the online, open-access course, “A History of the World,” to learners around the globe.
The course situates the study of global history in a global classroom,…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Princeton’s Global History Lab (GHL) is continuing to partner with a worldwide network of universities and NGOs to teach history in these challenging times. Through a series of courses taught in conjunction with these partner institutions, as well as a vibrant program of workshops, conferences and…