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Teaching Memory

Content written by the Educators Council team, originally published as the November 2025 Educators Newsletter. For many, November invites reflection—not only on those who have died or survived, but on how we remember them. This month offers an opportunity to explore the emotional, cultural, and social dimensions of loss, and how individuals and communities commemorate sacrifice, survival, and personal grief. National mourning serves as a powerful, unifying ritual. But behind the ceremonies are diverse experiences of remembrance. This month’s newsletter focuses on social histories: how people mourn, how memory is shaped, and how pupils can engage with remembrance as a dynamic, human process. Through these lenses, we invite reflection on how histories of commemoration influence shared understandings of loss and resilience. For every topic, we will provide practical resources that help educators approach this topic in a clear and visual way with students, helping them bring awareness and sensitivity to different cultures. How does Veterans Day foster community spirit in the United States? Historiography since the 1960s has become more considerate of social history....

November 3, 2025

Teaching Memory

Content written by the Educators Council team, originally published as the November 2025 Educators Newsletter. For many, November invites...

by Bruna Martins

October 24, 2025

Announcing our partnership with Pangram Labs

Of all the resources and infrastructure that make World History Encyclopedia a reliable resource to readers worldwide, the most...

by Bruna Martins

October 22, 2025

AI in Education: Promise and Peril

Content written by the Educators Council team, originally published as the October 2025 Educators Newsletter. Image credits: Kathryn Conrad...

by Bruna Martins

October 6, 2025

Announcing History AI Chat

We are excited to announce the launch of our History AI Chat – a new way to explore the...

by Jan van der Crabben

October 1, 2025

Why Non-Profits Must Make a Profit

As you know, World History Encyclopedia is a non-profit organisation, and proudly so. Having a mission for the greater...

by Jan van der Crabben

May 16, 2025

AI at World History Encyclopedia

With the start of 2025, we have now firmly arrived in the era of artificial intelligence. When people search...

by Jan van der Crabben

February 17, 2025

Is the Ancient Alien Theory Racist?

There is a theory that keeps reappearing in popular culture, each time with slight variations and different names, but...

by Jan van der Crabben

August 22, 2023

Eurydice – Poem by Emily Roy

This poem titled Eurydice by Emily Roy was the winner of the Open Junior Section of the 2023 New...

by Emily Roy

Timeless Travels Magazine Review

Published by Jan van der Crabben

Timeless Travels magazine is a cutting-edge publication combining narratives of personal travel with in-depth history. It provides a reader with travelogues, historical narratives, reviews of museum exhibits and tours,...

November 7, 2017

Travel

The Hadrianic Tondi on the Arch of Constantine

Published by Carole Raddato

The Arch of Constantine, dedicated on 25 July 315 CE, stands in Rome between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill, at what was once the beginning of the Via...

July 11, 2017

Travel

Art of Hadrian’s Villa: Headless Statue of Athena

Published by Carole Raddato

This marvelous piece from Hadrian’s Villa is a headless statue of Athena of the Vescovali-Arezzo Type and made of Luna marble. Related posts: A Visit to Rome’s Centrale Montemartini Museum...

June 13, 2017

Photos, Travel

Roman Villa Borg

Published by Carole Raddato

Ruins of a grand Roman countryside villa (villa rustica) were discovered by a local school teacher at the end of the 19th century outside the village of Borg in...

May 23, 2017

Photos, Travel

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