Report No 42 National Endowment for the Humanities Form

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Whenever we study the past, students get really excited. It's easy for the past to capture their imagination. Examples of people in the past who have also confronted a globalizing world where the world is becoming smaller at the same time that it is becoming larger. That really resonates with a lot of our students. We tend to assume that historians are first and foremost concerned by time, but historians are also interested in space. We were looking for a way to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research in the field of critical spatial analysis and teaching world history and the history of knowledge in the classroom. There's a real disconnect between this innovative scholarship and, kind of, the old rise-of-the-west narrative. You have the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and bang: Modernity. Europe is modern. Everywhere around the world is trying to catch up. What scholarship has shown is that knowledge was produced around the world. The p