Liberating Narratives is a weekly subscription newsletter helping world history teachers decolonize their classes. Each post explores how to teach specific historical topics and includes primary and secondary source excerpts, historical images, and maps. Bram Hubbell is the author. He can be found on Twitter and Mastodon.
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The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution
Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt... the Enlightenment wasn't one of them
Voices of the Southern Front: Decolonizing our Teaching of the First World War
A discussion of how to teach the First World War using sources from India and the Middle East.
Beyond the Good War: Alternative Narratives for Teaching World War II
A discussion of how to teach World War II in world history courses by focusing on resources and extreme violence.
“White Devils All Over Asia”: Teaching New Imperialism, c.1850 - c.1940
A discussion of how to teach New Imperialism in world history courses and centering the voices of colonized people.
Europeans Didn’t Discover the World
It’s time to stop calling it an “Age of Discovery” or an “Age of Exploration”
“The Bridge Has Fallen into Ruin”: The Rise and Decline of Cities Before 1450
Teaching world history often means teaching about historic trading cities (entrepôts). While some cities flourished as trade centers over centuries, others experienced brief periods of rise and decline. Constantinople/Istanbul is a unique example of a city that has flourished for centuries, but also has gone through multiple phases of
“No Day Passed Without Many Deaths”: Teaching Twentieth-Century Genocides and the War Against Humanity
Discussion of the Herero and Nama Genocide and the teaching of twentieth-century genocides.
Afroeurasian Exchange Networks and the Spread of Religions before 1450
Extensive trade networks crisscrossed Afroeurasia before 1500. These networks facilitated more than the movement of goods; cultural traditions and technologies also spread through the networks. We can easily see this through the spread of the four most popular universal religions. The Source
“Listen to the Women For a Change”: The First International Women’s Conference and Late Twentieth-Century Global Feminism
Discussion of teaching late-twentieth-century global feminism
The Problem with Hyphenating Afroeurasia
Hyphens suggest otherness; Afroeurasia has a long interconnected history
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