School:History

Welcome to the School of History!

A complete listing of history-related projects may be found at the History Portal. A school is a large organizational structure which can contain various departments and divisions. These should be listed in the "departments and divisions" section. The school page itself should not contain many learning resources. It may contain some projects for developing learning resources, and it may also contain recommendations for specific programs of study. Most learning resources are linked to from specialized portals in the "Topic:" namespace. The School of History is for coordinating the activities of Wikiversity participants who edit the History-related pages of Wikiversity.

Divisions and Departments
General learning project:
 * History of the World

General Divisions and Departments:


 * United States History
 * African History
 * Chinese History
 * Korean History
 * East Asian History
 * European History
 * Historiography


 * History of Racism
 * Indic History
 * Military History
 * North American History
 * Southeast Asian History

Integrated Divisions and Departments:
 * Board Game Studies

Specific topics and Mini Divisions:
 * Portuguese Trade in West Africa

Creating New Divisions and Departments
Divisions and Departments of the School exist on pages in "topic" namespace. Start the name of departments with the "Topic:" prefix; departments reside in the Topic: namespace. Departments and divisions link to learning materials and learning projects. Divisions can link subdivisions or to departments. For more information on schools, divisions and departments look at the Naming Conventions.

As a learner
Are you new to Wikiversity or the School of History? You have come across an important resource in the development of interactive Open Educational Resources. You are welcome here as a student browsing for resources to use in your studies. You may like to to sign up for a specific course. Either way you can use this area of cyberspace to keep notes while you study - but remember, they are open for other people to read! (You can create pages linked to your user page by adding "/subspacename" after your username when starting a new page). Please also use the discussion pages to give feed back about courses whether you like them or were disappointed. We also encourage more active involvement. You can help in the development of courses, adding to the bibliography, putting in links to wikipedia (use "w:" at the beginning of the box), correcting typos etc. If you are a newcomer, please see this quick tour to help you familiarise yourself with wikiversity.

As a teacher/facilitator
We also encourage teachers to use wikiversity as a place to develop and share their teaching materials. For more general information, please look here. In order for people to find your material in the School of History, please follow these Categorization guidelines.
 * Create a New History Learning Project.

As a researcher
In addition to Wikiversity's learning mission in various educational sectors, Wikiversity also hosts research. Please see Portal:Research for more information.

As part of a Learning Community
We also function as a learning community, sharing general maintenance tasks, discussing problems that arise and developing collaborative projects We keep a special page of things that need to be done for people who just want to jump in!
 * Get involved!

Have any questions? Leave them on the School's talk page, or contact EarlGrey with your question.

Other guides

 * The School of Strategic Studies has a lecture series designed to introduce you to writing essays for History and Politics classes. Check out the Political and Historical Methodology class for more information.
 * History of Quebec and Canada/Study Guide This guide has been prepared for Quebec High School students enrolled in the Secondary IV History of Quebec and Canada Course.
 * IB History Review Guide: Imported from Wikibooks (2008-05-28). Help to integrate the content into Wikiversity!

Active Classes
No current courses

Planned Courses
Finished Development:
 * Intro to the Early Republic: History of the US from Colonialism to the Civil War
 * Cambridge International Examinations - GCE Ordinary Level History (Southeast Asian History)
 * World History
 * Human Legacy Course
 * United States History
 * History of the Ottoman Empire

Courses in development:
 * British Empire
 * Spanish History
 * History of Ireland through Song
 * Life of Alexander (in conjunction with Classics)
 * War Seminar
 * Cambridge International Examinations - GCE Ordinary Level History (Southeast Asian History)
 * How They Had Fun: Culture and Context in the United States, 1900-1960
 * History of Cuisine
 * Medieval History
 * Introduction to Historiography
 * History of Germany
 * History of Nepal
 * History through American Girl for younger students; based upon the "American Girl" books.
 * History of Ethnology
 * History of Ottoman Empire
 * Queen Elizabeth I
 * History of Scotland

Shelved Resources
These resources may be revitalised:
 * Hitler's Germany A look into the underpinnings of the Third Reich - Socially, Politically, Economically. Now in progress, participants welcome.
 * Russian Revolution A look at the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia around 1917
 * World History: Part I: Prehistory to the Roman Republic
 * Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War A historiographical discussion of Thucydides' record of the Peloponnesian War.
 * Third Reich An analysis of important thematic elements of Hitler's "1000-year Empire"
 * Introduction to US History
 * Nonkilling Historiography: a new paradigm for historiography
 * Science, Sexuality and Colonialism: A History
 * Natural Science 14-17th century
 * History A history that benefits from geochronology

Requested Courses/Projects
''These are topics that have been requested and are considered high priority for the School. Please start or expand these projects if you are familiar with the topic area!''


 * History of the USSR
 * History of Japan
 * History of India
 * Jewish History
 * History of Cuba
 * History of Islam
 * History of Korea


 * History of Greece
 * History of Race and Sexuality
 * History of Folk Music
 * History of Ireland
 * Naval History
 * History of Sri Lanka
 * History of Jamaica
 * History of Turk

Resources

 * See the School of History Resources page.

Things you can do!

 * Clean up Draft:Astrohistory and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Colonial India and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Dates and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:History and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Libyan history and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Middle Ages and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.