Tag: Digital Learning
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Forty Days: How Venice and Ragusa Invented Quarantine
In 1377 Ragusa made ships wait a month offshore. Venice turned the idea into forty days, island hospitals and health passports. Here is how two medieval ports invented quarantine, and why every lockdown since is their descendant.
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Do No Harm: The Hippocratic Oath, the Healing God, and the Plague of Athens
What does the Hippocratic Oath actually say, why was it revolutionary, and what did a Greek doctor do when the Plague of Athens hit in 429 BCE? Apollo, Asclepius, dream cures at Epidaurus, and the summer when nothing worked.
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Al-Khwarizmi and the House of Wisdom: The Man Who Gave Us the Algorithm
In 820s Baghdad an outsider from the Silk Road wrote a book with no symbols that named algebra and, through a Latin misspelling of his name, the algorithm. Meet al-Khwarizmi, the House of Wisdom, and the recipe still running inside your phone.
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Inside the 429 BCE Plague of Athens: What Thucydides Witnessed (And What Modern DNA Reveals)
Thucydides survived the plague that struck Athens in 430 BCE and wrote down every symptom. Here is what he saw, and what DNA from a Kerameikos mass grave can and cannot tell us about the disease.
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AP World History 1450 to 1900: Why Students Remember People, Not Periods
A teacher’s guide to AP World History Units 3 to 6, from the Columbian Exchange to the Scramble for Africa: what the exam really tests, why students remember people rather than periods, and three ways to use our free apps with the units.
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Black Sails and the Real Republic of Pirates: How Nassau Actually Worked
Black Sails got the Golden Age of piracy right: the real Republic of Pirates at Nassau, 1715 to 1718, ran on elected captains, equal shares, written articles and the next prize. Here is how Hornigold, Vane, Blackbeard and Woodes Rogers actually played it.
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Shōgun: What the Hit Series and James Clavell Got Right About Japan in 1600
FX’s Shōgun and James Clavell’s novel are built on real people: Tokugawa Ieyasu, the English pilot William Adams and Hosokawa Gracia in the year of Sekigahara. Here is what the series gets right, what Clavell bent, and why Toranaga never believed in bushido.
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Revolutions Now on Apple Books!
History Adventures, World of Characters, Book 3: 1750-1900 is now available for download in 51 countries around the world… for free for a limited time only https://books.apple.com/us/book/history-adventures-world-of-characters/id1505237819
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Introducing: Agent 355, American Revolutionary War Spy
The future of the book is now. History Adventures — a next gen digital book experience being developed by an international team of animators, artists, designers, and historians — represents an enhanced, multimodal learning design for 21st Century students.
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Luis Felipe Gutierrez, Spanish Conquistador, the New World (Modern Day, Peru), 1537 CE
History Adventures: the Stories of People in Time, Connected by Eternity..