Americas
“Astonish the World”: Teaching Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe
Discussion of teaching Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe
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
“A Huge Contingent of Armed Africans”: Revisiting Enslaved African Resistance
Discussion of teaching the Malê Revolt
“I Left My Land to Come to Demerara”: Global Migration, c.1830 - c.1920
Discussion of teaching nineteenth-century global migration
“Longing for their Homes”: The Middle Passage and the Development of Modern Migration, 1700 to 1830
Discussion of teaching the Middle Passage as the start of modern migration
“The Longest and Most Dreadful Voyage in the World”: Trans-Pacific Slavery and the Early Modern Pacific, c. 1500 - c.1800
Discussion of teaching the early modern trans-Pacific slave trade
Visualizing State-Building in the Americas
Discussion of visual sources for teaching pre-conquest American states
“Hopelessness at Home, A Secure Future Overseas”: Teaching Jewish Migration in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Discussion of teaching nineteenth and twentieth century Jewish migration in a world historical context.
“The Disease Brought Great Desolation”: An Indigenous Account of the Great Dying
Teaching the Great Dying from an Indigenous American perspective
“Nothing Remained of the Houses”: Indigenous American Resistance to Columbus’ First Settlement in the Americas
Discussion of how to teach Indigenous American resistance to Columbus' first colony in the Americas
