The WHA is excited to announce two Presidential Plenary sessions for 2025. These sessions will be combinations of roundtables and forums covering key topics in the field of World History.

Chair: Bob Bain, University of Michigan

Eric Beckman, Anoka High School
Emi Iwatani, Digital Promise
Jesse Spohnholz, H21 & Washington State University
Tamara Shreiner, Grand Valley State University

This panel is a workshop led by the H/21 Project (History for the Twenty-First Century), a collaborative project of the World History Association. The presenters will discuss the project goals and open-access resources available to world history instructors, and then lead an interactive workshop to demonstrate practical examples of course materials that college and university instructors have successfully implemented in introductory world history courses. Audience members will have the opportunity to practice using H/21 learning materials and consider various ways in which they might implement these lessons in their classes. This panel will also showcase evidence of successful outcomes of these lessons, based on surveys and studies conducted by the H/21 team.