Biography history project
Biography history project for students!
Humans ARE world history: Introducing WHP graphic biographies!
By the OER Project Team
Where do you and your students fit in world history?
The history of the world is an immeasurablylarge topic spanning millennia of time and huge stretches of land and ocean.
Biography history project
A person, by contrast, is usually between three and six feet tall and generally lives for less than a century. It follows that humans fit into world history in such a way that they basically disappear in the vastness of space-time.
In fact, that has been a problem for world historians as long as the field has existed: How can we talk about world history in a way that makes visible the actions and experiences of human beings?
The World History Project (WHP) has an answer: the graphic biography.
Developed by OER Project editor Trevor Getz and illustrated in large part by Liz Clarke—the duo behind Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History—our 37 WHP graphic biographies help students develop a different per